[Systems] Upcoming sysadmin tasks (Was: My Sugar Labs Membership)

[Sebastian Silva]

(sorry if you got this a second time - I forgot to change my "From:"
field twice!)

Hi,
Domain SomosAzucar.Org has independent Google Apps account.
Bernie and I are administrators.
David, it'd be nice to have the education features, let me know
if I should request from google.

I'll try to immerse myself in infrastructure team thank you for
giving me the landscape view, I'm interested in bcfg2 and ssh+lpk
too so I'll try to share what I find.

I'm looking for best practice recommendations / methodologies
for administering a libre computer lab, which includes Sugar,
our aim is releasing a document at the end of the month for
an installfest at a social forum in a marginal side of Lima:
http://ourproject.org/moin/Install_Party_Villana
http://blog.fuentelibre.org/2009/10/convocatoria-cuerpo-de-instaladores.html
We're using Trisquel GNU.

Sebastian


2009/10/6 David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> > Oops, my fingers slipped on ctrl+enter while I was typing furiously.
> > I'm late for a math class.
> >
> > El Tue, 06-10-2009 a las 16:53 -0400, Bernie Innocenti escribió:
> >> Provisioning is starting to become a problem: creating accounts on
> >> multiple machines and distributing ssh keys does not scale well.  I
> >> think we should investigate a centralized solution such as ssh+lpk or a
> >> distrib
> >
> > ...distribution system for the public keys.
> >
> > We could also employ secured NFSv4 (or perhaps CIFS with the POSIX
> > extensions) to share specific home directories between sunjammer and
> > beamrider.  Not all users of sunjammer would have a shell account on
> > beamrider, only those who need to admin specific applications.  We'd
> > still use POSIX groups to reduce the number of people which need root
> > access to a reasonable minimum.
> >
> >
> >> Finally, I'd like to move the master nameserver and LDAP
> >
> > ...to a new VM hosted on treehouse (working name "atombender", after the
> > bad guy in Impossible Mission).  This machine would be higher security,
> > with only 3 or 4 admins and no user accounts or web applications.
> >
> > Munin should also move away from sunjammer, perhaps on treehouse.
> >
> > The number of machines is growing fast.  Sascha proposed adopting Bcfg2
> > <http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2> to centrally manage them.  He
> > will investigate and report back.
> >
> > I feel that the Infrastructure Team is also growing large enough that
> > we'd have to resume the weekly Infrastructure Team meetings.  It would
> > be great if someone less busy and more reliable than me took the role of
> > chairing our meetings.  Perhaps Henry or Dogi would like to offer their
> > experience as OLPC VIG coordinators?
>
>
> >> > I thank you for the offer, I managed to point the domains
> >> > (somosazucar.org+.com+.net)
> >> > to SL nameservers.
> >
> > Ok, I'll add zones for them later today.
> >
> >
> >> > What I'd like to do is have a wiki at pe.sugarlabs and point the new
> >> > domains there to begin with. Let me know how I can help with this.
> Also,
> >> > should I go register a new google apps account for emails, or do we
> add the new domains to
> >> > the sugarlabs google apps account? Let me know whatever is less work
> for you.
> >
> > Let's discuss how to setup the wiki instance on IRC later tonight if
> > you're available.
> >
> > For Google Apps, David has always done the initial work and then passed
> > administratorship to me.  I'll ask him.
>
> Let me know what you would like for google apps. You can either use
> the primary @sugarlabs.org or we can set up a separate
> @pe.sugarlabs.org .  A separate instance gives you the ability to
> administer your own stuff locally.  I just need to fill some paperwork
> with Google to upgrade you to the education edition so you get all the
> features for free.
>
> david
>
> >   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
> >  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
> >
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>



-- 
Sebastian Silva
Colectivo FuenteLibre
http://blog.fuentelibre.org/
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