pcplantdb

[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Donald,
Fred Stutzman wrote:
> 
> Please contact Donald Sizemore (dls@ibiblio.org) with the user accounts
> you need created, and the databases you need created.  I'm sorry for not
> getting back to you in a timely fashion, things have been kind of hectic
> lately.  If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact
> me.
> 
Could you create one user account: pcplantdb
and two databases, one called pcplantdb and one called pfaf.

A couple of Q's

Q1. Can we have multiple people using the same user id, or would
        it be better to have multiple user id one for each of
        the people involved in the project.

Q2. Will we need to ask you to if we need more databases created?

Q3. I'm not sure about the security side of MySQL databases.
        Whats your policy on this? Is it possible to have more than
        one user id with full access rights to a particular DB?

        Many thanks Rich


> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Richard Morris wrote:
> 
> > Dear Jon and Fred,
> > "Lawrence F. London, Jr." wrote:
> > > Rich and all:
> > >
> > > I just talked with Fred at ibilio (MetaLab) who requested that you
> > > get in touch with him regarding details of setting up the resources we
> > > need.
> > > Your idea of using phpMyAdmin to get us up and running to the point
> > > where we can start
> > > configuring the database and entering data is what we need.
> > >
> > > ibiblio already runs MySql and PHP.
> > >
> > > The ibiblio folks you'll need to work with are:
> > >
> > > Jon Magid  jem@ibiblio.org
> > > Fred Stutzman  fred@ibiblio.org
> >
> > Hi there. I guess Lawrence has explained the basic idea behind the
> > database, which is to produce an open source plant database
> > which will be a collaborative project where people can add data
> > about plants. I guess the plant information may will be similar
> > to the Plants For A Future database which is already running on
> > ibiblio.
> >
> > The projects very up in the air at the moment but the way I envisage
> > it is as a set of linked databases. There will probably be a few
> > key authors who each be responsible for one of the databases
> > and another database which can be amended by other people on the web.
> > Data from all these databases will be combined when users search
> > for a particular plant.
> >
> > For the project well need a user id, or maybe a set of user id's,
> > for the key authors. We also need mySQL for the databases
> > and php to do the user interface. As some of the authors
> > are not database experts I'm hoping to used a web based
> > db administration tool (phpMyAdmin) which should be usable
> > across the web by the key authors.
> > We'll also be developing a web interface for use by the general
> > public.
> >
> > I hope that the info you need. Drop me a line if you have
> > any other queries.
> >
> >       Regards
> >
> >               Rich
> >
> > p.s. thanks for hosting the pfaf db
> >

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