The 2005 Gentoo Council election is wrapping up, and in order to collect the ballots from devs' home directories we need the countify program to be run as root on d.g.o: perl ~agriffis/countify --collect council2005 Then the vote officials can take over and count the votes and report the results.
We could easily create a sudo alias for this.. any objections?
given the election officials will be changing over time, perhaps it would be better not to, given the usage vs burden (not much) on sudoers, it doesn't really seem worth it.
This shouldn't be a standard sudo command that sits in /etc/sudoers on a regular basis. We should either a) run the job for them via /etc/crontab as a special one off (my preference) or b) put in a sudo entry and remove it immediately after the election is over. Also, does the countify script change all that often? Could we move it into /usr/local/sbin without causing too much pain or extra effort for future elections? I'd really like to get this into a protected directory before we start letting it execute as root.
Done
