What problem are you trying to solve? Who's the "admin"? Is that the system admin, the database admin, the application admin? If I'm managing an instance for my use, does that make me the admin?

Centrally configuring everything for everyone has its drawbacks. It's better to provide defaults then let the users override and add to that with additional configuration.

Of course, I have this oddd notion that system operators exist to serve users, not dominate them. If you make it so the users have to track down an operator to get changes they should be able to make themselves, users will look for something else to use.

As for the configuration syntax, pick a single, simple one and stick with it. If you can configure everything with one syntax, another syntax doesn't buy you anything other than headaches, additional docs to confuse the user, and more ways to answer user questions.

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brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>
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