1080729 - Re-enable admin rights for Deb Richardson (dria)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites :: wiki.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

As discussed in email.

Comment 1

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

In order to help us review your request, please provide some more information, including:

* which rights you need and why (e.g. which actions you would like to perform)
* what your previous mediawiki experience has been (either on MozillaWiki or elsewhere) 

Thanks!

Comment 2

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

As previously discussed, we need to lock down editing on the Firefox for Android roadmap page, and in order to edit that I require admin rights (kar has filed another bug on that).

Previous mediawiki experience:

* I've been using wiki.mo daily for roughly 10 years and have had admin rights on it for most of that time.
* I set up, built, populated and maintained MDN for the first 2 years of its existence (it used to be a mediawiki instance).
* I managed the intranet wiki (also mediawiki) for several years.

Comment 3

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

(In reply to Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO) from comment #2)
> As previously discussed, we need to lock down editing on the Firefox for
> Android roadmap page, and in order to edit that I require admin rights (kar
> has filed another bug on that).

Full admin rights aren't appropriate for this use case because the rights conferred by the admin group far exceed what you need to accomplish this. Adding you to the admin group for this purpose would violate the security best practice of least privilege[1].

In bug 1081064 we're discussing the best way to address your groups need to control editing on relevant mobile pages. Please join the discussion there.

If there are other tasks you need to accomplish that you can't right now, update this bug with specifics.

Comment 4

[Christie Koehler [:ckoehler]]

I forgot to include the link about the principle of least privilege:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege