[Foundation-l] "seeall" privilege Was Fwd: [WL-News] WikimediaFoundation in dangeroflosing immunity under theCommunications Decency Act

[Brian McNeil]

Guillaume Paumier wrote:

>On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Mohamed Magdy <mohamed.m.k at gmail.com>
>>wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Why are you trying to complicate things? just give him back the sysop bit
>> and move on to other useful stuff.
>>
>> Staff don't need it, they will grant it to themselves if they do need it,
>> same goes for board members.
>
>Same goes for Jimmy. He can still grant it to himself temporarily in
>case he needs it for official matters. What Brian is proposing is an
>"official" status, for instance for board members who are not stewards
>elected by the community.

There is another issue - which is that from a systems management perspective
you never give anyone a privilege they do not need. It is, speaking as a
former manager of OpenVMS systems, a commonsense part of the account
management process. In fact, VMS has a "READALL" privilege built into the
OS.


Brian McNeil