temporary wizbit

• Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 20:06:05 PDT
• From:
  sir@po.cwru.edu (Seth I. Rich)
• Reply-to:
  sir@po.cwru.edu (Seth I. Rich)

I'm looking to permit a set of nonwizard players the ability to shut
down the MOO.  (In particular, a set of one player, the player who 
hosts the MOO, our sysadmin.)  I would prefer that he be able to call
shutdown() with his own permissions, so both the log and the
announcements to players would mention his name.

The way I intend to do this is to have a code segment (where #110 is
our sample temporary wizard):
  #110.wizard = 1;
  set_task_perms(#110);
  shutdown(); /* whatever, maybe a message here */

and, as the first line in $server_started:
  #110.wizard = 0;

Does anyone see any security considerations, race conditions, anything
which would make this a bad idea?  I don't think it's possible for any
harm to come from this, but...

Seth / Blackbriar

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