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Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS
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The Original Code is the Despot Account Administration System.
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Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are
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Copyright (C) 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation. All
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Rights Reserved.
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Contributor(s):
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Contributor(s): Terry Weissman <terry@mozilla.org>
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<head>
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<title>Despot help</title>
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</head>
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<h1>Despot help</h1>
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<a href="despot.cgi">Despot</a> is the system for administrating users
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at mozilla.org.
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<h3>Users</h3>
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A username is someone with an e-mail address. As far as Despot is
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concerned, the e-mail address <b>is</b> the username. We don't give away
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new sets of ids, we just use the full e-mail address.
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<p>
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CVS account names are the full e-mail address, with the '@' replaced
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by a '%'.
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<p>
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For each user, we also record:
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<ul>
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<li> The full name.
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<li> An encrypted password.
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<li> Whether this user is a "despot" -- one of the elite few who can
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view anything, change anything. A despot is an administrator,
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a superuser.
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<li> What group the user is in on each of our CVS repositories. At
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the moment, the legal groups are:
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<ul>
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<li> <b>None</b> -- not allowed to use this repository at
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all.
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<li> <b>cvsuser / webmonkey</b> -- normal usage.
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<li> <b>cvsadm</b> -- can access the entire CVS repository,
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including all the administrative stuff in CVSROOT.
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</ul>
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<li> Whether the users account is frozen until they change their
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password.
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<li> A numeric ID (used internally only).
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</ul>
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<a name="partition">
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<h3>Partitions</h3>
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</a>
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A partition in Despot is a section of a CVS tree. It defines a
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branch and a set of files within that branch. There should be a
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partition for every module listed in the <a
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href="http://www.mozilla.org/owners.html">module owners</a> document.
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I could've used the word "module" here, but I hate it. (Not that
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"partition" is much better.)
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<p>
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Anyway, for each branch, every file may appear in at most one
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partition. Put another way, if a given file appears in more than
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partition, then it must be on a different branch in each of those
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partitions.
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<p>
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Each partition defines the following:
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<a name="branch">
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<h4>Branch</h4>
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</a>
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The branch for this partition. HEAD means the trunk; no branch.
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<a name="files">
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<h4>Files</h4>
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</a>
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A list of files. If the last characters are "/*", then it means
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"anything in this directory, or in any subdirectory". If the last
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characters are "/%", then it means only files within this directory;
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subdirectories are not included. A "*" anywhere else in the path
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allows that directory node to match any characters at that position,
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e.g. foo/*akefile.m*k will match foo/Makefile.mk, foo/Makefile.mak,
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foo/makefile.mk, and foo/makefile.meek, but not foo/makefile.m nor
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foo/m/akefile.mk.
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<a name="Owner">
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<h4>Owners</h4>
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</a>
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This is a list of people who are considered to own this partition.
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They are all-powerful, within the limits of their partition.
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<a name="Peer">
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<h4>Peers</h4>
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</a>
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This is a list of people that the owners have designated as primary
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support people for this partition. In theory, they have less powers
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than the Owners, but at present they are treated identically.
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<a name="Member">
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<h4>Members</h4>
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</a>
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This is a list of people that are allowed to check into the partition
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when the partition has been put into "restricted" mode.
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<a name="state">
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<h4>State</h4>
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</a>
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A partition is in one of these states:
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<p>
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<table>
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<tr>
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<th align=right valign=top>Open:</th>
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<td>Anyone in the world may change any of the files in this partition.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th align=right valign=top>Restricted:</th>
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<td>Only Owners, Peers, and Members may change files in this partition.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr>
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<th align=right valign=top>Closed:</th>
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<td>Only Owners and Peers may change files in this partition.</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<hr>
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<address><a href="http://people.netscape.com/terry/">Terry Weissman <terry@mozilla.org></a></address>
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Last modified: Fri Aug 28 16:35:48 1998
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