Re: cannot delete last admin

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1999


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 22796
interpreted = N
texte = At 1:12 AM 1/21/99, Donovan Rittenbach wrote: >I use the [protect beta, gamma] tag, because I want to make sure that >whoever is accessing those files is from one of those groups. Why can't >the admin password access? If I am the admin, and my users want to cut me >off from something they can. That doesn't seem quite right. I suppose >that one could just make sure that the user never gets the power to code >their own stuff, and admin always gets put into this tag so that it will >work....anyhow, just thought that was interesting.If you are writing the protect tags, just add the admin group to the list. If other people are writing protect tags that don't include the admin group, just add yourself to their groups (in the WebCat security admin) and you should have no problem accessing those pages.-Daveo--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: cannot delete last admin (PCS Technical Support 1999)
  2. Re: cannot delete last admin (Bob Minor 1999)
  3. Re: cannot delete last admin (Kenneth Grome 1999)
  4. Re: cannot delete last admin (Dave MacLeay 1999)
  5. cannot delete last admin (Donovan Rittenbach 1999)
At 1:12 AM 1/21/99, Donovan Rittenbach wrote: >I use the [protect beta, gamma] tag, because I want to make sure that >whoever is accessing those files is from one of those groups. Why can't >the admin password access? If I am the admin, and my users want to cut me >off from something they can. That doesn't seem quite right. I suppose >that one could just make sure that the user never gets the power to code >their own stuff, and admin always gets put into this tag so that it will >work....anyhow, just thought that was interesting.If you are writing the protect tags, just add the admin group to the list. If other people are writing protect tags that don't include the admin group, just add yourself to their groups (in the WebCat security admin) and you should have no problem accessing those pages.-Daveo--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+ Dave MacLeay

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