From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: Chris Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>, overseers@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GCC maintainer account 
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:25:00 -0000
Message-id: <12228.982477627@slagheap.cygnus.com>
References: <3A8DE3D8.97CBD65@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00246.html

  In message < 3A8DE3D8.97CBD65@cygnus.com >you write:
  > Chris Faylor wrote:
  > 
  > > I've set this account up but this could possibly be retroactively vetoed
  > > by the other overseers if they see this as a security risk.
  > 
  > If I've the right of veto then I'd like to veto this move.  It is a
  > serious security risk :-(  It scares the crap out of me.
It's not significantly less secure than what we're already doing.  Consider
the ability to check in cgi-scripts for our web pages.

Add to that the fact that the folks who can access this account are some
of the most trusted folks in the project.


jeff