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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: corey@bitworthy.net, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] fscons users -r/-w <file> vs. editing /adm/users manually
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 20:55:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46c5b0cdfeddd4ffbe49588fc296ae20@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)

On Sat May 15 19:56:50 EDT 2010, corey@bitworthy.net wrote:
>
> If one wants to remove an existing user from the fossil file server,
> is it perfectly ok to simply edit /adm/users, as the hostowner user,
> directly?  Or is it considered better practice to issue users -r/-w via
> fossilcons? Or is there effectively no real difference?

if you are using venti and thus have a dump (snapshots), i would
recommend against removing users since removing users can make
the dump unintelligible.  at coraid, we just disable auth.

- erik



             reply	other threads:[~2010-05-16  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-16  0:55 erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-05-16  1:16 ` Corey
2010-05-16  1:28   ` erik quanstrom
2010-05-16  2:34     ` Corey
2010-05-16  8:55   ` Steve Simon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-15 23:56 Corey

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