motd editing

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:44:06 -0300 (ADT)
From: Edward Dyer <aa146@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: Clive Bagley <clive@chebucto.ns.ca>
cc: "David L. Potter" <potter@chebucto.ns.ca>, CCN Editorial Collective <editors@chebucto.ns.ca>
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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Clive Bagley wrote:

> It never occurred to me that editing access to 'editors' and 'motd' were
> part of the same edit group, since there is no direct correlation in the
> composition of the two groups. Overlap, since several people wear more
> than one CCN 'hat', but separate tasks.

The motd lives in the info-root directory, which is the same place
as a number of the main-pages live :)  So by default it was treated
the same as the rest of the pages in that location.

> I suspect if my "on again/off again"  access to editing the motd over the
> last few years may have been compounded by the overlap of the two lists,
> now quite distinct.

Could well be !  We also had occasional problems with recognition of
the proper group when someone edited the motd as root, thus
depriving everyone who should have had access :)

> I am delighted to hear that we now have a stable solution, and that
> nothing can possibly go wrong ever again.  Can I get that in writing?

Where is that **** any key?

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