On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Audeaude.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think you can get root access to cassini since it's a wikimedia box, they want to keep root access as restricted as possible.
You could test it locally of course and submit something that works:)
Who is they? Brion? or who? People who handle things like OTRS are well trusted.
Anyway, database tasks require a postgres account with superuser privileges, which is independent of root access, and permissions for the postgres directories (e.g. config files) would help.
Or perhaps you don't need any help?
Oh no, I'd like all the help I can get. And in fact ideally I'd like not to do any system administration at all.
I was just under the impression that I couldn't give anyone else elevated permissions due to some WM/WMDE policy.
But you're right of course that elevated permissions to the postgres database / the osm data are well contained, and since Daniel has no objections I'll grant you that, and anything else you need to work.
What's your toolserver username?
That also applies to anyone else who'd like to help actively, especially people who've been involved in OSM server administration and want to help getting OSM working for Wikimedia too.