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

[Satish Balay]

ok - didn't realise the complete context.

satish

On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
>   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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