On 16/03/11 11:38, Roan Kattouw wrote:
Normal shell users can execute all but one of the
steps required for
wiki creation: root access is needed to create the DNS entry for the
new subdomain. Previously we just had RobH handle all wiki creations,
but he's been working almost exclusively on setting up the Virginia
datacenter for a while now AFAIK. I previously suggested on IRC that
we could have regular shell users like Ashar do the wiki creations at
a scheduled time and assign a root to do the DNS stuff for them.
Scheduling is a great idea.
Maybe DNS modification could be made to not require root account but
just a specific group of well trained people. I have been a dns admin
for an ISP in a previous job, currently an architect for network
geolocalisation so I probably could apply :p
Of course, this does not fix the actual creation of the wikis.
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Ashar Voultoiz