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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] removing users
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:39:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ed8992b4d189a4f14486a3a1559475d@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030619182445.GA6452@thefrayedknot.armory.com>

> so i should rename them all to some null user which is unable to log in?

Don't rename them all to the same thing.
That will just confuse you later.  We don't
ever remove people -- we just turn off their
accounts on the auth server.

We had a spell where we renamed foo to usedtobefoo,
but we've basically given up on that too.

Russ



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-19 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-18 23:06 Andrew
2003-06-19  6:36 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-06-19 17:50   ` Russ Cox
2003-06-19 18:24     ` Andrew
2003-06-19 18:31       ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-19 18:39       ` Russ Cox [this message]
2003-06-19 18:43         ` Andrew
2003-06-19 18:51           ` Russ Cox
2003-06-19 19:08             ` Andrew
2003-06-19 19:11               ` Russ Cox
2003-06-19 18:48       ` jmk
2003-06-19 19:17       ` Scott Schwartz
2003-06-19 19:19         ` Russ Cox
2003-06-19 19:27         ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-19 19:30 boyd, rounin

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