On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:49:16AM +0000, Steve Traylen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:52:53AM -0000 or thereabouts, Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> > Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kostas Georgiou said:
> > > > It should have course be corrected but reality is that
> > > R-GMA is completly
> > > > open anyway so what is there is the lesser of two problems.
> > >
> > > If everyone with a proxy has read/write access to the
> > > accounting records why do we bother keeping them then?
>
> > Like everything, we assume that people are trustworthy ... and the
> > people with most incentive to alter the records are probably the admins
> > who can do it anyway :) In any case, as Steve says you don't need to
> > hack the database, anyone can publish records into R-GMA.
>
> Since the original problem is non urgent because it is shadowed by
> a larger problem I've requested the install guide and yaim scripts
> change the permissions.
Should we inform other sysadmins that it might be a good idea to
change the permissions?
Is anyone working on fixing R-GMA btw?
Kostas
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