We need vocabulary -- Was: Re: [Babase] Ranker Meeting

Lacey Maryott lacey.maryott at duke.edu
Wed Apr 25 13:49:00 EDT 2007


I think that "Babase Login" "Unix Login" and "Wiki Login" All seem 
appropriate.  They are all fairly discrete in my opinion.  There's my 
input :)


Lacey

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 04/25/2007 08:03:51 AM, Lacey Maryott wrote:
>
>> *The interface requires a log in and that log in will be the same as 
>> your PPA login.
>
> A note on vocabularly, because getting the terms right will help
> everybody understand how things work.  If we get the words
> wrong confusion will forever reign and there will be much
> wailing and gnashing of teeth.  :-)
>
> Both PPA and the ranker, and anything else that gets access to
> the database, require a "database login".  If we want we
> can call it a postgres (or postgresql) login, because that's
> the database software.  Or, we can call it a Babase login.
>
> Let's pick a consistent name and use that everywhere.
> I've been using "database login", but one of the others
> might make more sense to people.  I'd shy away from
> "PPA login" because it's not something that's PPA specific.
>
> The other login that we have get's ssh access to papio.
> I've been calling this a "Unix login".  We could call it
> a papio login.  It turns out that this same username/password
> pair also grants the people at Duke access to other
> biology related computers, so I'm sure there's a name
> for it (like "biology login"?) used by Duke.  However
> Duke's term is associated with access that we don't normally have
> so I don't think we want to use Duke's term.
>
> The "Unix login" grants access to the VPN.  It'll be
> necessary to start the VPN (when not at Duke) to run
> the ranker program.  When using the ranker
> the Unix login turns on the VPN, which gets you to papio,
> the database login then gets you to the database.
>
> Most Babase user's don't need a Unix login because they
> get to papio over the web.  The ranker program talks
> directly to the database, on papio, and so needs
> permissions to get through Duke's firewalls to papio.
> The VPN provides this access.
>
> That's the story.  Please chime in and let's pick some
> vocabulary for the two kinds of logins.
>
> When we pick something could somebody write up the
> results on the wiki?  (Which reminds me, there's
> also a wiki username/password, so your sophisticated
> Babase user will have 3 logins.  I'm sure I could
> make the wiki use the database login, but it's
> almost surely not worth messing with.  Oh yeah.
> There's also the mailing list username (aka email address)
> and password.  But nobody really ever uses that
> except to sign up or un-sign up.
> Except for the mailing list _administrator_ username
> and password....  *sigh*)
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                  -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
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Lacey Maryott
Department of Biology
Duke University
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