On lun, 2002-12-30 at 09:30, Sheldon Rampton wrote:
Comma-separated list of rights. Right now, only "is_editor" and "is_sysop".I believe this should be changed to say,
Comma-separated list of rights. Right now, only "developer" and "sysop".
That's right. Beware separate documentation files -- the up-to-date documentation is the code itself. ;)
I was able to change my user rights to "sysop" using a direct SQL command. Is there a better way to do this? Assuming the Disinfopedia grows as hoped, I imagine I'll want to give sysop rights to other users.
At present there is not a better way to sysopify users, but if anyone's interested it would be easy enough to add a special page to grant/revoke sysophood. (There used to be one, briefly, in phase II, it perhaps could be dug up and adapted.)
I'm assuming that I won't have any occasion to give anyone "developer" rights. Is this a fair assumption?
Unless you really trust them -- a 'developer' user has SQL write access to the database, which means they can do anything from silently alter the contents of an article to erasing the entire database. There's nothing a developer could do that couldn't be done from a login shell on the server with access to the physical installation, so you may not want to use it at all.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)