On 10/21/07, Bryan Tong Minh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/21/07, River Tarnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i don't like this at all.  such edits can reflect badly on the user whose
> > tools are being edited (if the edits are bad), and although users are 
> > trusted
> > to a reasonable amount, that doesn't prevent well-meaning but incompetent
> > users accidentally breaking other people's things.
> >
> Excactly. I have been  looking around in other user's code, and I can
> assure you that a lot of users do nothing to protect their passwords,
> sanitize their database inputs, etc. I personally would not want to
> have all users on the toolserver being able to write to my tools.

Not unless you disappear for a while and your tools break, that is?
It's true, there's no reason at all to do this for actively maintained
tools.

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