[838] in Moira
[Theodore Ts'o: Re: not checking for lists when registering status 4]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
Mon Nov 28 15:01:14 1994
To: tytso@MIT.EDU, dkk@MIT.EDU, moira-admin@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU,
coc@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 15:00:30 EST
From: Carla Fermann <carla@MIT.EDU>
Hi!
>>I'd like to move forward with not creating lists for new users,
>>regardless. The reason why we didn't do this September was because the
>>documentation needed to be fixed first. What do we need to do in order
>>get moving on this?
I'll talk to Kevin and Sharon; I think we could probably just add a
note now in the on-line documents and the stock answers, and then when
they revise the documents for fall they could change things more
completely.
>>There's one more disadvantage, which to my mind is the most serious one:
>>
>>- - This represents a perhaps significant policy change, where *all*
>>members of the MIT community would be entitled to an Athena account.
>>Historically, we only automatically gave accounts to students and
>>faculty. MIT Staff members had to go to MIT accounts and ask, and get
>>special permission of some sort. Are we ready to change this? I'm not
>>convinced this is a good idea....
Actually, ACMG already made that change over a year ago, it's just
that the registration program has never been changed to match. Because
register didn't allow people to choose between athena or techmail, we
left people as status 4. Now when they contact us we can tell them
what to do based on what they want. (I think we also may have been
getting Lincoln Labs people then, and didn't want to make them
automatically eligible.).
Carla
