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From: Andrew <afrayedknot@thefrayedknot.armory.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] removing users
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:43:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030619184332.GA6659@thefrayedknot.armory.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1ed8992b4d189a4f14486a3a1559475d@plan9.bell-labs.com>

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:39:28PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote:
> > 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
>

is it okay to remove their files from the active filesystem (since venti
has them already) or is that unnecessary?

thanks for all the help.

Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-19 18:43 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
2003-06-19 18:43         ` Andrew [this message]
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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