Subject: Update Global Address Book by multiple people

From: [email-masked] (Howard Hui)
Date: 15 Jan 1996 20:29:45 GMT

Hi,
Sorry if it is a FAQ.

I'm new to Pine and would like to know any ways or tools available to
allow multiple users to update the global address book?  Since it is a
read only file. Right now only one person can update it.  I'd like to
see if there is any way to update it using different ids. 

Thanks a lot!

Howard Hui
Email: [email-masked]

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:20:53 -0800 (PST)

However it is that you have that one person update it, you can have
others, too.  The idea is that global address books won't be changing out
from under you while you are running pine.  However, there are some checks
built in so that changes will almost always be detected and occasional
changes will not be too annoying.  For a global address book to be
writable by a user, that user could move it to the address-book list (so
it is a personal address book for them).  They would also have to have
write permission on the files and directory in which the files are
located.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:07:45 +0000

> Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

Beware however that life is not as simple as it seems. I am using this 
methodology for some shared lists, using groups for access control.

When updating a global list in the way suggested I find that the access 
is all screwed up: pine's re-writing of an addressbook seems to make 
assumptions contrary to what I need. I want perms =-rw-rw--- (because 
this is a restricted list); pine insists on putting -rw-r--r-- (because 
only owner should write and anyone can read), and resetting group=owner.

That means that to get the perms back correctly a special script must be 
run every time they are updated. 

Ideally Pine ought to leave the perms alone (for addresslists; I can see 
why it is paranoid about folders).

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:20:04 -0800 (PST)

> why it is paranoid about folders).

Right, I had forgotten about that.  Barry mentioned this to us before and
it has been fixed for the next version.

Steve