<div dir="ltr">"Hang on to yer heatsinks! It's time fer an upgrade!"<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/7 Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 12:50 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:<br>
> As to the actual user accounts, by disabling them you ensure the user<br>
> id is not re-used. Thus if you have logs etc. that track employee<br>
> activity by user id you can be assured that uid NNN is the same person<br>
> over time. If you delete the account and the uid gets re-issued, you<br>
> lose that one-to-one relationship.<br>
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</div>Yes, but this becomes impractical on systems where you only have, say,<br>
32K or 64K unique UIDs that can be used for the lifetime of the system.<br>
You're not likely to actually *have* to purge accounts if you have some<br>
larger number of available user IDs---say, 2^32 worth of them, as some<br>
modern systems can provide.<br>
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--- Mike<br>
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My sigfile ran away and is on hiatus.<br>
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