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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

I would love to help with this. As, like you said, it would allow me to become
more familiar with how sorcery works. The main problem is: I don't know how
much extra time I would have to work on that and work and school. I'm 
basically
going to work and school full time. I don't have a whole lot of free time, but
I'll be glad to help as much as I can. Definite assignments would be good.

David Kowis
Computer Programmer
http://shlrm.org
Source Mage - Use it! - http://www.sourcemage.org


Quoting Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:

> Quoting Josh Fuhs <fuhs AT purdue.edu>:
> > Wow, this project has more than I thought it did.
> > 
> > It seems that making the change to allow users to use sorcery would
> require
> > a
> > bit more than changing the install path and removing the 'su'. As it is,
> > there
> > is absolute certainty that whoever is using sorcery has superuser
> priveleges.
> > So
> > caches, grimoires, etc. can be trusted.
> > 
> > It would be ideal if regular users could be given (almost) all the
> > functionality
> > of the superuser (modify their own grimoire, cast spells, dispel, etc),
> but
> > without compromising the integrity of the superuser system.
> > 
> > Perhaps you've already accounted for this in the system, and I'm just
> > rambling
> > about a lot of nothing.
> > 
> > If I find myself with a significant amount of free time, I'll look through
> > the
> > source. It would be nice to know where I could find documents with respect
> > to
> > the requirements and design of the system.
> > 
> > Josh
> 
> Most of those would require a little more abstraction to our current Sorcery
> than is in there, yes, but it shouldn't take much. Just make two layers, one
> for normal (root) operation (which it does now), the other for a normal
> user,
> who could have his own config settings, would need his own writeable cache
> (but
> could still use the global one for reading, along with configs so that it's
> not
> required that he have a whole copy of Sorcery). Our Sorcery Team is looking
> for
> volunteers, so if you'd even like to help with the current setup you could,
> just to get more familiar with the internals, which may make implementing
> your
> idea easier. :)
> 
> -sandalle
> 
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