Hi Andrew,
> The thing that's new is that automated installation of sites makes people
> think they get all that for free: that's not the case, and you still need
> an admin who knows what they're doing.
the automated installation is treated like a black box it is true, but
even when it isn't it is difficult to understand what can be changed
without affecting the middleware behaviour, especially when the
installation tool is complicated in itself.
cheers
alessandra
>
> The pool accounts issue is largely irrelevant, since I'm not aware of LCG
> advertising a "how to recycle pool accounts" recipe. (If there is one,
> I'll have a look and give some feedback.)
>
> Furthermore, the relevance of these issues to account recycling was raised
> repeatedly by the developers (ie me) when the pool accounts system was
> developed and added to EDG - in my first email about it, dammit! :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
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