Re: [Mailman-Developers] GSoC 2014 : Proposal for the Mailman CLI project
Hi Rajeev,
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Rajeev S rajeevs1992@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Abhilash,
I did not quite get the user role part.A command line utility runs on the server on which a software instance runs, just like a MySQL command line utility.You will need physical access to the system or atleast the shell.I believe you cannot expect every moderator of the list to have that kind of access. From my point of view, the tool will be used by the list owner or the server admin, just like the MySQL shell,which can be used only if you have access to system shell.However, User/Role management can be imposed by including a login for the shell,if necessary.Again,that's not possible for the command tools.
The working of mysql client and this project are very different. As Steve pointed a lot of things might be out of scope for your project but it would be nice if you could discuss about the complete working of it and at-least document it so that if not you, someone else can leverage this discussion and help improve your project after you are done with it.
There is usually never a physical access to a server so that is out of question but still applications do exist with user roles, don't they? Even in mysql you have users. What if on a host I run mailman as 'maxking' and on the same host 'rajeev' and 'steve' are two other users whom I have granted owner roles(as an admin) to two different lists do whatever the CLI will do. Who said only one person can have access to a host?
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Abhilash Raj