MTU LUG meeting Minutes November 1st, 2007

Shell Access
 Problem?  Who gets access?
 Someone disabled Jon's account?
 He removed everyone's shell access as security lock down
 Mary: He gave impression that he wouldn't remove access
 4 accounts disabled
 Mary: He's not attentive to needs of people on server
  Active not passive attention
 Kyle's sudo taken away (kyle is VP) given back
 Brian: Don't remember turning off Jon's account
  Maybe disabled your's after turning off mine
  Was in the middle of working on mirrors
  should of contacted in person

 Brian: Only officers should have account
  mistake on both sides
 Mary: Accounts should have time limit
 Brian: Devree over stepped bounds
  In channel talking about stuff (#cael)
  Jon added v3ritas to channel when unwanted
  He removed brian's access to server

 Mernerva died?
  Stuff still not working
  Too busy to maintain server?
  where is mirnerva? = Jon's house
  Motherboard is dead

 Boat-Load of accounts disabled?
 Officers have accounts?
  by default? yes- then have a fall back
 Single account for officers? limited sudo access?
  Share account? no... then not accountable
 Easy to cover tracks :(
 If you have someone smart then it doesn't matter.

 Account for each person - limited access

 Jon will e-mail what He did to Jon so Jon can fix it
 Jon D. proven untrustworthy because he doesn't listen

 Jon D. gets reported to public safety if hack back on server

 E-mail list of all accounts (and status) to Secritary

Delegation of Duties
 Mary: Jon D. claimed to have greater authority then officers
 Brian: He's good at what he does
 Kyle: Server Op is given explicit control of services
  IRC stuff not in constitution and not electable
 Kyle: ---
 Mary: Process create Bylaws so that there's still a review
 Kyle: Has to have time period before hand
  ByLaws still need approval of office of student affair
 Mary: Need way to decide authorities not just duties
 "user authorization" delegate access on server?

 Stuff doesn't seem to be getting done

 Meeting Minutes need to be up online somewhere
 Write protect the wiki pages? (backup to central storage?)

 jon <-> dark communication improvements

 student access to server only?
 Trust of people off campus?
 Delegation authority allowed to non students? semi-permanent
 Services handled by people at Uni?

Mirror Status
 Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo should be working
 Brian: Mirrors most important function of server
 Huge service to people in the dorms
 Never noes what's broken? no one complains
  Broken so long no idea what is supposed to be there
 We are official mirrors for several things
  Makes us look really bad if stuff is constantly down
 Telcom hasn't complained about bandwidth recently
 Last year we had them cap us to 10Mbit out to off campus
 Up out outbound? Maybe once mirrors are working
  Talk to Shane
 (Distro)-announce sign up?
  extra e-mail account to monitor stuff
  synthia lug e-mail thingy
  keep mirrors up to date

 How long to keep releases?
  Like to keep a couple versions
  (no one updates instantly)

 RAID 5 so one drive can die
  Drives still under warranty
 Front end server is okay, filer SUCKS

 New hardware list ready for next meeting

30 Second Administration Tips
 cron - 'man cron'
  'man 5 crontab'
 backups - backup PC, it's kinda nifty
 sudo - superuser do!
 nfs - not secure

Ad-Hoc networks?
 If you're in the middle of a field you can network :)
 Not all cards can act as APs

Constitution
 Amend to allow by-laws?
 Extra stuff is listed in Wiki, but not really official
 Need way to react faster?

Treasure
 status of money request?
 Mary want it? NO!
 Never shows up to meetings

 Should impeach? to get stuff back and close security hole
 Ask him to step down?

 Vote to impeach? Kyle
  seconded Brandon C.
 15 to impeach, 2 abstain  Pow! gone.

 Nominations for new Treasurer?

 Kyle nominates Long haired guy
  declines
 Mary nominates Andrew
  declines
 Kyle nominates Jon K.
  Accepted

Student Org space
 We can put a student usable computer in there.

Backup of server stuff
 Config stuff IRCd
 ~30 Meg in Backup PC?
 DCS charging for storage?
 Jon W. will take care of it.

Alumni Offering Hardware?
 Should try and get anything
 maybe wait till USG stuff (and money requests) settle

Boot without CD?
 Floppies
 debootstrap
 netboot

Open Moko
 Nifty open source cell phone
 Developer price >$400
 Base price ~$350
 When Wifi added then then ~$450
 Mary wouldn't mind one being donated

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