Sorry I forgot to include the subject line?
On 06/21/2012 04:57 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
A few months ago It was asked on infra@ about how the group should go about building up trust so you all would feel comfortable handing out e.g. ssh and sudo access to servers. Since there is someone activity (me) asking seeking to help and would need that access I guess this is a good time to bring up the question again. I am not aware of any other trick beyond building up reputation. Your
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 05:00:31PM -0400, Robert Middleswarth wrote: personal involvement in the project goes a long way to prove that you indeed care for it. Agreed there is some subjective aspects to it. However, I do not know to quantify how much reputation would one need to get a root access, a permission that is very easy to abuse and very hard to take away. I agree as well. Another important issue beyond trust is NEED. Do you really need full su access? I personally do not have such an access, and have to ask for every little host tweak specifically.
Dan. Well that is a good question. I have the same issue in my company were we know the people. We have to balance access and need. Some times
On 06/22/2012 08:45 AM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: that need lets someone have root access to a certain system but most of the time we just put the pieces together. From my understanding there are 3 core servers and a few Jenkins slaves involved right now. The webserver/listserver/wiki/kitchen sink box, Gerrit, and Jenkins. So access to one server gives you access to just about everything. So you are right root access shouldn't be given to just anyone. But the current team of people who have access aren't doing it full time and I wouldn't expect the project to have people doing it full time. The question is and it was purposed by quaid once you have someone that you feel has the reputation to be given access what kind of process should they go though. Not saying I have hit that stage yet. I would assume at a min we would need to confirm they exist. Example have a phone and a mailing address so we are sure we have legit person not someone pretending to be someone else. Do we require a face to face with an existing member to show a Driver License? It is the old web of trust question. How do you trust someone on the Internet. Answer you don't unless you verify them off-line in some way. Thanks Robert