[SAC] LDAP organization help

[Alex Mandel]

On 9/7/22 15:26, Regina Obe wrote:
>> To complicate things, there's another common name in the "shell"
>> organizational unit being "telascience", with description:
>>
>>    Shell Access to OSGeo TelaScience resources
>>
>> That's the group shown by this url:
>>
>>    https://id.osgeo.org/ldap/shell
>>
>> And that group is HUGE, suspiciously.
>>
>> --strk;
> 
> Yap, that's what I thought.  Internally the shell group is called
> telascience.
> All these people I think are people that are allowed to upload artifacts to
> upload.osgeo.org and that is why they were put there.
> 
> Before my time I think all OSGeo servers were housed at Telascience, and
> when that became defunct, the name just stuck.

That sounds about right. Shell access is much wider than SAC, 
particularly for the upload purposes. However typically only SAC members 
have elevated privileges on machines (no idea how that's actually 
managed now).

-Alex