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samizdat-role

SAMIZDAT-ROLE(1)					      General Commands Manual						  SAMIZDAT-ROLE(1)

NAME

       samizdat-role - Samizdat role management

SYNOPSIS

       samizdat-role [ OPTIONS ] --list

       samizdat-role [ OPTIONS ] --grant MEMBER

       samizdat-role [ OPTIONS ] --revoke MEMBER

DESCRIPTION

       samizdat-role Allows to view, grant, and revoke member access to priviledged roles on a Samizdat site.

OPTIONS

       --site SITE
	   Name of the Samizdat site (overrides SAMIZDAT_SITE environment variable).

       --role ROLE
	   Name of a role, default is moderator.

       --grant MEMBER
	   Grant ROLE priviledges to MEMBER. MEMBER may be specified as resource id or login name.

	   NB: To grant or revoke priviledges using this command, you must use database superuser priviledges (in PostgreSQL, this is 'postgres').

       --revoke MEMBER
	   Revoke ROLE priviledges from MEMBER. MEMBER may be specified as resource id or login name.

	   NB: To grant or revoke priviledges using this command, you must use database superuser priviledges (in PostgreSQL, this is 'postgres').

EXAMPLE

       su postgres -c 'samizdat-role --site s1 --grant joe --role moderator --list'

       Grant moderator priviledges to the member 'joe' of site 's1' and list all moderators.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Dmitry Borodaenko <angdraug@debian.org>.  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this doc-
       ument under the terms of the GNU GPL version 3 or later.

																  SAMIZDAT-ROLE(1)

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