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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multiple committers, again


From: Matthew Palmer
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] multiple committers, again
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:24:20 +1000
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On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:11:22AM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 17:26:10 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:23:38AM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 14:44:30 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:05:57AM +0200, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 19:38:12 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And WebDAV, lest we forget, is available too. Apache2 is your 
> > > > > > friend there. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Except in many labs admin won't bother enabling webdav :-(.
> > > > 
> > > > it *should* be possible to run a webdav enabled webserver under your own
> > > > login.a I don't know if it's possible with apache, though.
> > > > (You'd have to run it on a nonstandard port, of course.)
> > > 
> > > Our computer lab rules say, among other things, that a user must not
> > > have any processes running when he is not logged in.
> > 
> > Do your lab rules allow you to turn the frigging thing on?
> > 
> > Computers are there to be used.  If you need certain things in order to
> > get your work done, then the systems admin staff should be helping you. 
> 
> If it's not your work...?

Then what are you doing misusing university resources for personal purposes?

> > There are things that need to be disallowed for the good of the wider
> > community, but it sounds like your lab admin staff are on their own little
> > power trip.
> 
> It's a university computer lab. There is some 30 computers with several
> hundreds accounts. Some things are simply not possible in that
> situation. Allowing users to run their own daemons would render it
> unuseable.

That's just one of the options.  Enabling WebDAV on the standard server was
another option proposed, as was shared accounts.  There were also a couple
of others.

Any of them would be possible.  Which one is most appropriate under the
circumstances is up to the admin staff, but they should be working with the
users they serve to ensure that something useful can be done.

> Anyway. We are far off topic. The topic is:
> 
> To create a multi-commiter archive you only need:
> 
>  * A standard installation of ssh 2.
>  * Account for each commiter
>  * A group where all the commiters belong
> 
> *AND NOTHING ELSE*

Indeed, although it isn't exactly obvious what to do from the descriptions
in the Wiki.

- Matt

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