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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Sun Apr 18 08:53:58 PDT 2004</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>I've noticed that quite a lot of services packages now have, instead of a
  35 </I>&gt;<i>&quot;levels&quot; based system of oper access to services, (such as oper &lt; services
  36 </I>&gt;<i>oper &lt; services admin &lt; services root), a &quot;flags&quot; system of access.
  37 </I>&gt;<i>
  38 </I>&gt;<i>This &quot;flags&quot; system is really very simple, commands (or groups of
  39 </I>&gt;<i>commands)
  40 </I>&gt;<i>each have flags that you must posess in order to use them.
  41 </I>&gt;<i>
  42 </I>&gt;<i>For example, there could be one flag for having admin access to forbid
  43 </I>&gt;<i>channels, another to drop/force register channels, another to set things
  44 </I>&gt;<i>like the channel password, and another to use 'sendpass'.
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  46      I'm not quite sure how this is &quot;simple&quot; compared to the current
  47 system...
  48
  49 &gt;<i>The benifits of this system are clear, much more finely tuned operator
  50 </I>&gt;<i>access to services according to job, greater access seperation, and a much
  51 </I>&gt;<i>more flexible services package overall.
  52 </I>
  53      On the other hand, drawbacks include more complex configuration, more
  54 complex code (meaning more potential bugs), and more annoyance when trying
  55 to deal with people who can't get it set up right.
  56
  57      Still, the issue of inflexibility in the current system has been
  58 raised before, and I may consider modifying it to allow more customization
  59 in version 5.1 or later.  I will not be making any changes in 5.0.
  60
  61   --Andrew Church
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