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From: Andrew <afrayedknot@thefrayedknot.armory.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] removing users
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 11:43:32 -0700
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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