[HECnet] Another sillyness. More information in the nodename database on MIM.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-05-18 20:28, Cory Smelosky wrote:

On Sat, 18 May 2013, Ian McLaughlin wrote:


(I may be too late answering this, because I'm mobile and there's a
billion messages in this thread that I haven't read yet...)

I'd really like to see a Hecnet-based solution - like a set host to a
captured account on mim or something would be nice. A web page kind of
breaks the illusion of an antique network :). Limiting access to
hecnet methods sort of self-polices just by itself.


A "captured" account? ;)

"Captured" accounts under RSX is very natural. However, they call it slaved terminals. :-)

	Johnny


Ian
(Trying to keep up with the tread while at my son's birthday party)

Sent from my iPhone

On 2013-05-18, at 9:58 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

On 2013-05-18 18:52, Cory Smelosky wrote:

On Sat, 18 May 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:


On 05/18/2013 12:45 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
  I like the idea of giving us all write access.   Maybe you can
set up
regular dumps of the database for restoration in case someone screws
up.

I can certainly do that. It just becomes a question of people might
need to
reenter information in case a rollback has to go far. Also
trickier to
realize if "corruption" actually have happened perhaps.
On the other hand, I could atleast have permissions that only allowed
random
people to modify data, not add new, nor delete.

That's a really good idea.

I second this.   How flexible is Datatrieve's permissions system?

You can identify users either by UIC, or by entity-specific
passwords. And for each type of thing in there you have Read, Write,
Modify, Extend, and Control. And the access is a list, with the first
match being the permissions used.

So I could either make sure all people who might want to modify this
have their own account on MIM, or else I could just create password
protected access, and we could have shared or private passwords.

    Johnny

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