The active/deactive flag now disappears but we keep activate and deactivate functionality by relating it to the USE_CONFLUENCE permission .

The notion of 'activity' will no longer be a separate value stored in a property set. Instead, if a user is active, they have the USE_CONFLUENCE permission. If the user is deactivated, the user is removed from all groups and loses the USE_CONFLUENCE permission. When we deactivate a user we will also store a propertyset, indicating the previous memberships that a user possessed, which can later be called upon to make life easier for the administrator if the user is reactivated.