Access Controls

[Dave Peticolas]

David Merrill writes:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:29:12PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > David Merrill writes:
> > > 
> > > Yes, I am trying to do it this way if I can. It is decidedly
> > > nontrivial and may not make it into the first release. I am already
> > > becoming rather ruthless about cutting things.
> > > 
> > > I *do* keep a complete auditing trail, so changes *can* be reversed.
> > 
> > That's very nice. By 'complete' do you mean that changes are kept
> > permananetly? Could they be used to 'backup' to a previous state
> > (allowing the user to, say, specify a particular date/time they
> > want to back up to?).
> 
> Theoretically, yes, you should be able to back up any arbitrary number
> of steps. I don't plan on implementing this functionality for the time
> being, though. I might change my mind, who knows? How bad do you want
> it? ;-)

Well, as long as the potential is there, I think the implementation
can wait awhile.

dave