[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Bulletin Board Permissions without AFS

tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett) (05/16/89)

> Excerpts from info-andrew: 15-May-89 Re: Bulletin Board Permissi..
Nathaniel Borenstein@and (543+0)

> I have always felt that a graphical front-end to FLAMES is what is
really needed.

I think you hit the nail on the head here.  It need not even be
graphical, but merely menu- or template-driven.  UIUC's notesfile system
(which is used extensively here at Langley) provides a reasonable
interface for maintainers, although I'm sure better ones could be
devised.

At any rate, after several hours of mucking around with FLAMES, I
decided I could live with a simpler permission scheme than I had
originally envisioned, and I reverted to using some of the canned
library routines.

-Tom