On Wed, December 21, 2005 12:54, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: >> Giving somebody root accounts on all Debian project machines is not >> lightly >> done, so I can understand that we don't have a 20-people DAM committee.
> And even if you think that'd be a problem (which I don't), I think it > might be possible to implement the account creation in such a way that > DAM members can create regular-DD accounts, but that they can't add > superuser accounts or elevate regular accounts. With an LDAP system, > such a thing should at least in theory be possible, but I don't know the > implementation specifics though. Unfortunately no-one took the time to react to this specific proposal, which would alleviate the problem that DAM==root on all Debian machines, the single argument for not increasing DAM membership numbers. Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

