[darcs-users] Multi-user, access-controlled Darcs

[Gwern Branwen]

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Trent W. Buck  wrote:
> This is definitely a useful thing, and a technique that is not (yet)
> well documented in Darcs' documentation.
>
> Would you like to include this script in the contrib/ (née tools/)
> directory of Darcs' repo?  This would (hopefully) increase its
> visibility and make it easier for the community to contribute
> maintenance / feature improvements to it.

Mm. That's not a bad idea if Laszlo can license it appropriately.

Also, how secure is this? I'm not too up on shell scripting or darcs
hooks; could a RW user get a RO user RW privileges? Or could RO users
escalate themselves?

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gwern
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