Access Controls

[David Merrill]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:57:56PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> 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.

Chop! Chop! There goes that feature!

Yes, I am getting into implementation mode.

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