Multiple Admin Access Methods

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Interested Parties

~jayshao, ~mk2337, ~awp9, ~holdorph

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Notes

I often think that an Ant task that remotes into a live uPortal instance to
provision it is more sane than an Ant task that itself touches the uPortal
database, taking advantage of the live service stack implemented in the
running portal. But maybe I'm getting greedy. At a minimum, as Cris and
others have noted, anything that you can do from the command line you should
be able to do via the Portal's Web UI. We have a rich layout management,
grouping, and permissions feature set – we can and should leverage this to
provide rich administrative dashboards for uPortal.

I'd also want to be clear that the full best practice stack isn't required
for initially sharing tools – the hacked out Ant task is fine as something
to post and share. I think a lot of what we're going for here is, sure,
you're going to write the one tool flavor that meets your immediate need,
but please factor it in such a way that producing another flavor of it is
easy.

~awp9