[19872] in Athena Bugs
Re: cvsadmin group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Oct 5 18:59:37 2001
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:59:34 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: golem@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, gnu@MIT.EDU
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Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> wrote on Fri, 5 Oct 2001
at 18:58:12 -0400 in <200110052258.SAA09064@brad-majors.mit.edu>:
> >> Sent to bugs, because arguably it's a bug in the Athena environment
> >> that the cvsadmin moira group exists, causing this behavior.
>
> Sorry, don't buy it; there's precedent for creating moira groups that
> correspond to priviledged groups in specific pieces of software. See
> also "administrators".
Just because we've done stupid things before doesn't mean they weren't
stupid.
--jhawk
