Re: account system group deletions

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 08:44:43PM +0200, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
> 
> +1 for me on groups.
> 
> This does raise the question about user accounts no?
> We could have a group that is created with the same name as a group that was
> deleted, and suddenly our auditing trail needs to take into account a time
> component as group X at time A may be different than group X at time B.

Yeah. Luckily we don't add many groups anymore...so I don't think that
will be too much of a problem.
> 
> I've the feeling that user accounts are a tad more sensitive and thus we may
> want to keep our current policies, I'm raising the question here nonetheless :)

Yeah, user accounts are a different thing.
The case you mention above with groups could be a lot more confusing
with users... user foo at time A is not the same as foo at time B.
I'm ok with just keeping out policy of not deleting accounts except
under exceptional cases. 

kevin 

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