Re: RFC: Removal of user/groups

[Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu>]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 04:56:03PM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote:

> I was thinking of the reusability problem, and came up with the following:
> When an user/group is removed, it's placed in quarantine. That ID
> isn't used unless the same user/group is recreated, or that all other
> possible ID:s is exhausted. For most of the time, that would prevent
> an ID to be used for an other user/group.

Not removing the user/group gives you most of the above quarentine
effect, except automatic re-use. OTOH automatic re-use would present
_exactly_ the same issues as normal account removal. So the quarantine
you describe would only help to mask the symptoms but does not provide
any real solution.

Gabor

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