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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] restricting access to important spells
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:56:16 -0500

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Arjan Bouter wrote:
> In the last couple of weeks it happened a few times that important spells
> like linux-pam and shadow got broken by updated spells. Needless to say
> it's annoying when I've got to fix a spell just to be allowed access to my
> own box...
>
> Mathieu (lejatorn) and I were talking on #sourcemage about restricting
> access to certain important spells to
> component leads and a few selected devs chosen by those leads.
> We think anything related to boot/login should get on that list of spells.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>

Only one. I know we keep the bar low for entry. I like that, and I think
that's a good thing. A few patches, a bit of work in bugzilla fixing
things and you get yourself scm access.

However, something to think about. By giving those people scm access,
we're basically allowing them indirect root shell access on every single
SMGL box there is.

This has nothing to do with the current issue, but something that's been
nagging at the back of my mind...


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David Kowis

ISO Team Lead - www.sourcemage.org
Source Mage GNU/Linux

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