From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Edwards To: Gerald Pfeifer , overseers@gcc.gnu.org, Mark Mitchell Subject: Re: GCC maintainer account Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:40:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010216132859.A26564@disaster.jaj.com> References: <20010216005626.A17480@redhat.com> <20010216120915.C19422@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001/msg00214.html On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:09:15PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:46:59AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > > >Security-wise, wouldn't it be better to make the account -rwxrwx--- with > >some group gccadmin, add all relevant folks to that group, and have ever- > >yone log in using his regular account, so that we can see easily who has > >made which changes and logged in when? > > I don't think that group access allows modification of crontab. It doesn't. Or at least, it shouldn't; if it does then we have problems. The onlinedocs for libstdc++ and the 2.95.2 manual are being created by scripts in my home directory. Those should probably get moved, or merged, or something. (Actually, they're under CVS control in a repo on my local machine... running vi on sourceware was a mistake I only had to make once. :-) Phil -- pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com | pme at sources dot redhat dot com devphil at several other less interesting addresses in various dot domains The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phil Edwards To: Gerald Pfeifer , overseers@gcc.gnu.org, Mark Mitchell Subject: Re: GCC maintainer account Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:17:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20010216132859.A26564@disaster.jaj.com> References: <20010216005626.A17480@redhat.com> <20010216120915.C19422@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q1/msg00214.html Message-ID: <20010216101700.l_XC_Froxgm5TYuE_pmCC5PFwGPRJ6QaZBpXmqqgPHs@z> On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:09:15PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:46:59AM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > > >Security-wise, wouldn't it be better to make the account -rwxrwx--- with > >some group gccadmin, add all relevant folks to that group, and have ever- > >yone log in using his regular account, so that we can see easily who has > >made which changes and logged in when? > > I don't think that group access allows modification of crontab. It doesn't. Or at least, it shouldn't; if it does then we have problems. The onlinedocs for libstdc++ and the 2.95.2 manual are being created by scripts in my home directory. Those should probably get moved, or merged, or something. (Actually, they're under CVS control in a repo on my local machine... running vi on sourceware was a mistake I only had to make once. :-) Phil -- pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com | pme at sources dot redhat dot com devphil at several other less interesting addresses in various dot domains The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.