On lun, 2002-12-30 at 09:30, Sheldon Rampton wrote:

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Comma-separated list of rights. Right now, only "is_editor"
and "is_sysop".

I believe this should be changed to say,

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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)