> 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 contrary, the user name foo maps to the disk uid foo. Russ
