[SAC] [OSGeo] #1569: Modify service providers entry for Astun Technology

[Jeff McKenna]

I believe we could use phpMyAdmin to give access to the backend MySQL 
database, although (ha, reversal here for you) I don't recommend opening 
our database through the web (I always use the commandline tools instead).

Funny reversal :)

-jeff



On 2015-11-03 3:55 PM, Alex M wrote:
> Short term that might work. Long term it's been suggested we replace the
> whole thing with an app that does what we actually want it to do and
> isn't dependent on ancient php and somehow sorta intertwined in Drupal
> but not really.
>
> Anyone else got ideas? Can we setup a web account that has admin via the
> web interface to all the data?
>
> -Alex
>
> On 11/03/2015 11:30 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> I don't, I would love to help here.  These requests do come fairly
>> often, so I wonder if we could expand access roles for maintaining this.
>>   I believe we need commandline access to the MySQL backend database
>> behind our Drupal instance.  (here's a similar request:
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1470)
>>
>> If you are looking for volunteers, I do volunteer to maintain this.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2015-11-03 3:08 PM, Alex M wrote:
>>> Anyone know how to manually edit these listing (or is there some admin
>>> account over all the listings), who could work with Jo to make the
>>> updates needed.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On 11/03/2015 02:17 AM, OSGeo wrote:
>>>> #1569: Modify service providers entry for Astun Technology
>>>> ---------------------------+-------------------
>>>>    Reporter:  jocook         |      Owner:  sac@…
>>>>        Type:  task           |     Status:  new
>>>>    Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:
>>>> Component:  Systems Admin  |   Keywords:
>>>> ---------------------------+-------------------
>>>>    Hello,
>>>>
>>>>    I've been asked to modify the service providers entry for Astun
>>>> Technology
>>>>    on
>>>>
>>>> http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1&MUL_COUNTRY%5B%5D=00002&MUL_LANGUAGE%5B%5D=00008
>>>>
>>>>    but I am not the original user that created the page and I don't
>>>> know who
>>>>    did. Is it possible to give me permission please?
>>>>
>>>>    As reassurance, I work for Astun Technology so this is not a malicious
>>>>    attempt to change someone else's entry :-)
>>>>
>>>>    Thanks
>>>>
>>>>    Jo
>>>>