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

[Cory Smelosky]

On Sat, 18 May 2013, Johnny Billquist 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.


That's pretty flexible.

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.

Hmmm.   I almost want to see if I can't apply my "run UNIX shell scripts at login to run one specific application" stuff to work for this on RSX-11. ;)

I need to get around to learning DCL...I have menus I need to write anyway.


	Johnny

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