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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