Oops, if I said "Jeff" I meant Jeremy/"jaf" of course. Somehow "jaf"
turned to "jeff" in my typing fingers, after typing Ryan's actual first
name. :) Jeremy Frumkin.

Jonathan
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> On 3/21/08 8:13 AM, "Jonathan Rochkind" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> So as many of you know, OSU is now hosting the code4lib.org server, with
>> the various code4lib community apps running on it. Jeremy Frumkin's
>> group hosts it, and Ryan Ordway does the heavy sysadmin lifting.
>>
>> They're now ready to start granting other people shell access to the
>> machine to manage/admin apps. This was part of the original plan when
>> hosting moved to OSU.  While Ryan provides basic sysadmining and
>> security, the intention isn't neccesarily for him to manage individual
>> apps, but instead to take advantage of interested code4lib volunteers to
>> do this--essentially how things worked before OSU hosted the code4lib
>> server. More hands means less work. (Sometimes, to an extent. :) ).
>>
>> So the question for the community is--how the heck should Jeremy and
>> Ryan determine _who_ to give shell access to? Pre-OSU hosting, code4lib
>> was hosted by a defined group of code4libbers who chipped in for hosting
>> fees, and were the only ones who had shell access. If you wanted shell
>> access, as I understand it, you'd have to talk to them about becoming a
>> member of their 'cooperative', and they'd decide whether that would
>> happen or not.  Now, with OSU hosting... what should happen? It probably
>> doesn't make sense that any Joe Schmoe that nobody's heard of can just
>> email Ryan and automatically get shell access. So ruling that out....
>> any ideas?    Maybe if you want shell access to manage a particular
>> application, you email the code4lib listserv, and....   then what?  Not
>> sure.
>>
>> Jonathan
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