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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 02:09:26 -0400
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9grid.us
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> The accounts exist once they are used, so I think the implicit
> creation is not likely to be entirely transparent.  One could consider
> ephemeral userids and arrange the dump accordingly, but I think most
> 9grid users would prefer to have at least some permanent resources.
> But maybe that's not even a requirement.  Expiry certainly would be
> nice, specially to prevent denials of service.  I guess the problem is
> not a new one.

I was not suggesting they be ephemeral.  I just was suggesting
that the behavior be that in the absence of evidence to the=20
contrary, the user name foo maps to the disk uid foo.

Russ