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

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 14:14:08 PST 2010


On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Luc Verhaegen <libv at skynet.be> wrote:
> 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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