Wednesday 21 September, vers 19h, Sylvain Beucler tapota : > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:55:45PM +0200, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > (Did I reply to this mail already?) > > Not yet :) > > > I'm not sure there's any good solution for that. If I'm right, the > > problem is that you have to give access to ~100 users that belongs > > to group www to all homepage repositories of groups of the GNU > > group type. I'm not sure to understand how works your stuff > > currently. I do not even know if the backend still permits to > > create add users of the www group to webpages groups, like it > > worked in the past. But that was an ugly solution, anyway, causing > > all www groups to have more than ~100 users. > > Well, I'd say that what was ugly was to hardcode that feature in the > back-end, with some areweonsubversions() calls. > > I think I (or you) cleaned-up that part at the time of the Savannah > local post-crack changes merge. > > The fact to have some people member of the 297 GNU webgroups doesn't > really annoy me. > > > I cannot think of any good solution. I think that I would go with > > the solution of creating a special user for members of the www > > group, by hand. > [snip] > > I'll try to avoid complicating the life of the gnu.org > webmasters. In the worst case, I'll re-add the hardcoded hack, > maintaining a patch.
Instead, do a perl script using the backend to extract the list of members of the www group and do the appropriate useradd. So you wont have to maintain a patch, only a script. We have at gna a set of scripts that use the backend but would not make sense to be published with Savane that fits this kind of purpose. -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Savane-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/savane-dev
