[Freedombox-discuss] my summary of yesterday's Hackfest

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:39:54PM +0000, Matt Willsher wrote:
>On 2 March 2011 12:17, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> Please beware that you mess up the quoting slightly - often first 
>> line of a quote has too few indentation markers, making it display as 
>> if you are quoting someone else!
>>
>
>Sorry, it's getting tricky to follow. It's been a while since I've 
>replied to mailings in this form.

I sure appreciate you not top-posting, if that's what you mean.  Thanks!

(I am lousy at pointing out what I appreciate - focus on what can be 
improved, which often leaves a feeling of me not appreciating anything)



>> (and please don't blame it on your mail application: ultimately you 
>> are in charge and can use a different one if it serves you badly!)
>>
>>
>Oh, I appreciate that. Mistakes are easy to make. And please don't 
>assume what I'll blame!

Whoops. Sorry about that!


>>>> Ok, so in your household you are sysadmin.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I am but how could this case possibly be configured by the Debian 
>>> sudo package? Or what if the roles of the people in the household 
>>> change? Or what if more people are needed or a new role?
>>>
>>
>> Ahem - you cut off the part where I tried explain that. :-P
>>
>> Please try reply again to my former post, and comment also on that 
>> section right below above quote.
>
>
>I don't think it did explain it. You mentioned a case of an 8 headed 
>machines but that isn't relevant here. When I'm after is a particular 
>outline of how the case I gave could be done using the debian package 
>system. Explicitly, how would the sudo package handle the pretty 
>standard case I outline?

You want it even more concrete.  Fair enough: Provide me a sample 
sudoers file, and I shall propose a refactoring as sudoers.d snippets 
that does not upset package upgrades.


  - Jonas

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