[Wikipedia-l] Sysop status

[lcrocker at nupedia.com]

>>Sysops can do "SELECT" queries on the database.  Only developers
>>can do updates and deletes.

> There had been some discussion a while ago of changing that and 
> restricting all direct DB access to developers; I guess I got it
> mixed up with the implementation in my memory. As I recall the
> points of contention were:

> 1) Users' passwords were stored in the database in plaintext.