def create_account(self, new_account, new_user, new_password):
        """
        Handles the create_account call for developers, used to request
        an account be created both on a Swift cluster and in the auth server
        database.

        This will make ReST requests to the Swift cluster's account servers
        to have an account created on its side. The resulting account hash
        along with the URL to use to access the account, the account name, the
        user name, and the password is recorded in the auth server's database.
        The url is constructed now and stored separately to support changing
        the configuration file's default_cluster_url for directing new accounts
        to a different Swift cluster while still supporting old accounts going
        to the Swift clusters they were created on.

        :param new_account: The name for the new account
        :param new_user: The name for the new user
        :param new_password: The password for the new account

        :returns: False if the create fails or the user exists, storage url if successful
        """
        begin = time()
        if not all((new_account, new_user, new_password)):
            return False

        account_hash = False
        with self.get_conn() as conn:
            row = conn.execute('''SELECT cfaccount FROM account WHERE
                                   account = ? AND user = ? AND password = ?''',
                         (new_account, new_user, new_password)).fetchone()
            if row:
                account_hash = row[0]

        if not account_hash:
            account_hash = self.add_storage_account()
        else:
            account_hash = self.add_storage_account(self, account_hash)

        if not account_hash:
            self.logger.info(
                'FAILED create_account(%s, %s, _,) [%.02f]' %
                (repr(new_account), repr(new_user), time() - begin))
            return False
        url = self.default_cluster_url.rstrip('/') + '/' + account_hash
        with self.get_conn() as conn:
            conn.execute('''INSERT OR REPLACE INTO account
                (account, url, cfaccount, user, password)
                VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)''',
                (new_account, url, account_hash, new_user, new_password))
            conn.commit()
        self.logger.info(
            'SUCCESS create_account(%s, %s, _) = %s [%.02f]' %
            (repr(new_account), repr(new_user), repr(url), time() - begin))
        return url