Comment 7 for bug 1770370

@Sandor Zeestraten (szeestraten),

To clarify:

Juju will NEVER physically delete a user.

Right now, an appropriate administrative operator can:

1. Logically delete a user. This user can never be active again.
2. Disable/enable a user. A disabled user will note lose their privileges on the system. This way, if the user is enabled again, they will still have the same access.

These operations exist now and will not be changed in anyway.

However, right now usernames are strictly unique - they cannot be re-used. My suggestion above will, in the future, allow username to be re-used as long as it's unique among all active, non-logically-deleted users.

Let me know if you are thinking of a scenario that is still unclear given the above information. Happy to talk you through a concrete puzzle.