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)