[IRCServices Coding] Services Admin : Global Access to Channel Settings

[Adrian Cantrill]

A channel takeover situation where a channel founders password is gained
and the services admin wishes to remove / add channel access to secure
the situation. I can think of many legitimate situations where a service
admin should have access control privileges globally. And on many other
services distributions this is the case.


-----Original Message-----
From: ircservices-coding-admin at ircservices.za.net
[mailto:ircservices-coding-admin at ircservices.za.net] On Behalf Of Mark
Hetherington
Sent: 10 April 2002 00:00
To: ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net
Subject: RE: [IRCServices Coding] Services Admin : Global Access to
Channel Settings

Adrian Cantrill wrote:
> Yus... one viewpoint... I tend to go with the flip side.. that service
> admin should have 100% access to all channels etc... but I just
watched
> to check if it was a intentional design decision.
> 
> Maybe have this as a option though? Services as a whole will be more
> flexible then.

AIUI Services is not trying to be "Big Brother" and is there to provide 
protection to users as well as assistance to those that run the network
so 
I don't really see such a thing becoming an option. 

Why would you want to manage the access list of somebody else's channel 
anyway? 

I think if you had and used the power you would find affected channels 
would swiftly relocate. 

Look at the currently available support to remove the ability of users
to 
register channels. In such an environment a services admin/root would
have 
to register channels on demand so a services admin/root would become 
founder and would have full rights to the access list. See
CSEnableRegister 
in modules.conf for more information.

-- 
Mark.


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