[IRCServices] Network Policies..

[Andrew Church]

     If you gave someone privileges and they abused them, that's not
Services' problem.  Choose better opers/admins.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>We had a problem on our network with a "Server Administrator" with shell access to his server, slowly setting his network access higher, to Services admin, he also added the "globalroute" ability on his oper{} and started squitting some of our servers.. w
>e promptly removed his server from the map.. it brought us to thinking.. Would there be a way to prevent this occuring in the future, some times server admins, sometimes friends, appear nice, and give you a server, then turn on you.. We originally started
> thinking of introducing "Policies" on our IRCd, but then Brain` came up with the idea of coding it into services.. OperServ or a new services would be able to control other opers, and make sure their privs havnt been changed without permission, obviously
> this has its problems, but we should be able to solve them.. The main Questions are..
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>Would you use it?
>Should it be intergrated into OperServ or a new Service Created?
>Should the Opers be handled via Config, or thru a database?
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