Minutes 2007-11-01
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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 END