[petsc-dev] please make myself and Satish admin on bitbucket.org/petsc

[Barry Smith]

  Satish,

   This is totally irrelevant to the discussion.

   Barry

On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Barry Smith wrote:
>> 
>>>  I am totally confused. Why can I use my BarryFSmith account to admin repositories people make and push and pull repositories but suddenly when I want to have admin at the petsc level I need to use this other "openid" thing?????? Why, why why?
>> 
>> 
>> Hmm openid is orthongonal. As I understand things - its just a
>> machanism to not maintain yet-another-passwd-for-yet-another-site.
>> 
>> [i.e setup openid with any openid provider. and then user this
>> credential to login to accounts at 10 different sites. Obviously each
>> site will track you as a different user - so they like to give you a
>> user name].
>> 
>> But you can ignore this - and do a userid/passwd just for bitbucket.
> 
> Should have added - if you've created 'BarryFSmith' account on
> bitbucket using some openid account [for ex: your google account] -
> then thats the authentication bitbucket will probably ask for -
> whenever it need to autheticate you.
> 
> 
> For ex: I created a regular account with a new passwd with bitbucket.
> userid: balay
> passwd: psswd
> 
> So it will provide bitbucket.org/balay/repo to me. For authentication
> I just use the above userid/passwd.
> 
> If you've crated an account 'BarryFSmith' using an openid - say
> bfsmith at google.com - with [google-passwd] - then it will provide
> bitbucket.org/barryfsmith/repo. But for authetication - it will
> always prompt you for the google-id and  google-passwd
> 
> 
> Satish
> 
>> 
>> The model is:
>> 
>> you have an 'account' - and can create repos there. Now you are the
>> owner of the repos.
>> 
>> Then you can give 'admin' privilidges to other 'account' users on any
>> given repo. And also create groups to give read/write permissions
>> etc..
>> 
>> So they have this distinction of 'owner' vs 'admin' [and I think only
>> owner can delete repos]
>> 
>> Satish
>> 
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