On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:48 PM, dan nessett<[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't understand the point you are making. If an MW administrator can set 
> environmental variables, then, of course, what you suggests works. However, 
> Brion mentions in his Tues, Aug 11, 10:09 email that not every MW 
> installation admin can set environmental variables and Aryeh states in his 
> Tues, Aug. 11, 10:09am message that some MW administrators only have FTP 
> access to the installations they manage. So, as I understand it some 
> administrators cannot use the tactic you describe.

If they can run commands on the command line, then they can use
environment variables.  If they can't, then your suggestion doesn't
help.

> If there are administrators who can execute command lines, but cannot set 
> environmental variables (e.g., they are confined to use a special shell)

There aren't.  That would make no sense.

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