Hi @schuffr,
Removing Users and Retaining Content
There are two different notions of deactivating an account on RStudio Connect.
If the account is locked, content stays and is available to other users just as before, but the person has no ability to login.
If the user is actually removed, then it is possible to transfer all their content to another user prior to deletion using the usermanager tool.
We generally recommend just locking users to deactivate them and only deleting as a last resort. Details are in the RStudio Connect admin guide (12.5 and 12.9).
Pin Names
The username is prepended to the pin name to ensure uniqueness across the server. If you pin something to RStudio Connect and someone else retrieves it, they can just use the name you used to pin it.
For example, if you run pin(mtcars, "cars", board = "rsconnect"), anyone else will be able to get the content by just running pin_get("cars", board = "rsconnect"), with the caveat that they'll be forced to disambiguate if someone else creates a "cars" pin and gives them access as well.
Hope that helps!