Hi, Karl! On 12/12/2012 12:07 AM, Karl Berry wrote: > > The problem is how to manage that file with addresses. > > How about a local file on fencepost (only, not checked in to savannah), > readable only to the gnun user/group? Presumably that's where the cron > job will run in the end, right?
Quite right. It is desirable to make that list of addresses write-accessible to all team members; if the file were maintained on fencepost, a fencepost account would be needed in order to modify it. we certainly don't want to grant fencepost accounts just for this purpose, and I think accessing fencepost (that is, using ssh and editing the file remotely) could be essentially inconvenient or even hard for some members. > I can't think of any normal features on savannah that will help maintain > a private file. We could do something special to make a directory only > readable to a certain user or group, but I don't really see how that > would help. My idea was about private tracker items: they are only visible to and writable by the members of the group when they are logged in. as I understand it, the missing bit (provided that GNUN is made a member of the group) is the possibility to read those items non-interactively.
