[Mageia-sysadm] updating sysadmin privileges in forum config

Wed Mar 21 15:10:40 CET 2012

Am 21.03.2012 14:57, schrieb Romain d'Alverny:
+> Hi there (xpost sysadmins and forums-discuss lists),
+>
+> following the steps in
+> https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/council/2012-03/msg00115.html I'm going to
+> update the forums groups for sysadmin members. The culprit is that
+> it's not in sync with LDAP so far, so it's to be manually updated.
+>
+> Targetted situation:
+>   - forum _technical_ management people =>  sysadmin (includes updating
+> the code base, reviewing and applying patches)
+>   - forum administration (roles, configuration, all that can be done
+> through the Web interface, interfacing with sysadmin) =>  someone still
+> to step up
+>   - we don't touch to user-defined groups by default (although I'm not
+> sure Packagers/Sysadmins ones are really needed/used - they are not in
+> sync either - but this should be dealt with future forum)
+>   - we use the Administrators group to manage who gets to fully manage
+> the forums (there's an extra higher level for that, but not accessible
+> to anyone at this time). Sysadmin members are members of this group.
+> I'm reviewing the steps to do that (I will most likely kill the
+> Sysadmins group and copy the forums users from the LDAP sysadmin group
+> into this Administrators group).
+>   - this is for forums.mageia.org/en/ ; forums.mageia.org/de/ should be
+> managed in the same way, but we need someone to relay the discussion
+> in German.
+Currently I am the admin of the de forums, and I am reading here.
+We do need only three groups in de forums:
+"admin, global moderator, registered user"
+I needed the admin rights exactly once, to ban a spammer. But it should 
+be possible to do that without filing a bug report assigned to the 
+sysadmins.
+
+Oliver
+