Hi all. I've added a new module that you might be interested in to the Cookbook. Suffr (from "suffrage") is a PmWiki module that implements democratic control of the underlying operating system. It's designed to let Wiki users compose changes for the system's configuration, and then vote/sign off on them; when they're approved, the module replaces RC files, execs commands, or emits and invokes (bash) scripts.
Applications include all the usual sysadmin/dba tasks, everything from running rc.d start/stop/restart to editing server process configs. It could even edit PmWiki's config.php. I created it to answer the question "who should be held responsible when someone posts something objectionable?". Sysadmins who mightn't use the Wiki themselves wouldn't want to answer for it. So with Suffr the users who manage the Wiki also manage the webserver & OS. It's just a proof of concept at this stage but it works (at least on my test machine). It's by no means a safe idea yet; do not use on production or testing machines or any computer you care about. No claims that this is an original idea; would appreciate hearing of others doing the same. Need more grist for the mill :) In the zip I put a documentation page into wikilib.d; let me know if this isn't wise. Thanks for a really wonderful tool and the active community. Hope this serves someone's needs. http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Suffr Kirk Zurell Waterloo, Ontario, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
