Who actually does have root? [was Re: Respository ...]

Luc Verhaegen libv at skynet.be
Sun Nov 28 14:10:48 PST 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:39:48AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:40:54PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >>
> >> We could probably better define this sort of things, again fd.o has
> >> been a pretty haphazard setup based on volunteer time and effort, but
> >> again hopefully we can get some escalation procedures in place that
> >> are less public.
> >>
> >> Dave.
> >
> > In fact, more visibility is what is needed, not less!
> >
> > Just like with the fundamental change that happened with the X.org
> > board earlier this year: we need to know who is doing what, before we
> > can trust it.
> >
> > In my very first email i asked who all had root access to the fd.o
> > machines. I haven't got an answer to that yet.
> >
> 
> ssh annarchy.freedesktop.org
> cat /etc/passwd | grep root
> 
> Pretty much gives you the list of fd.o admins to anyone who has
> access, again X.org isn't the only project hosted on fd.o,
> so there are admins from other projects who have root.
> 
> Dave.

For annarchy:

Daniel Stone
Keith Packard
Carl Worth
Eric Anholt
Thomas Vander Stichele
Adam Jackson
Rob McQueen
Benjamin Close
Behdad Esfahbod
Tollef Fog Heen

Is this the same list for all fd.o machines? What about gabe, which is 
another machine that this change could've happened from as well.

Luc Verhaegen.


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