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None were noted.
cos@inf. Roger has received a list from EUCS (Christine Rees) and this is being checked
Neil has liaised with David Lowrie and the feed will be setup in due course.
The unification group has met and made a proposal including unifying to using staff=10010 and actively changing group ownership of the associated 'staff' files.
It was agreed that there are no sub-categories required within the staff category. If they are required they can be provided by additional roles.
The issue of privacy with respect to quotas information led to the following proposed general policy:
all information required for the purposes of administering systems will be considered public.
This allows all relevant data to be held in LDAP without concerns about privacy.
However, there have been instances where it is useful to note information that should not be public. Neil will discuss the requirements for this with the support groups.
There is a need for pseudo-users on local machines for occasional
sysadmin purposes (eg, bindrun). The
auth object can handle creation of these to avoid
individual components having to do so. In order to avoid clashes
there will be a header file specifying which are used and what
UIDs they have allocated. These UIDs should be in the range
500-999.
There is also a need for pseudo-users for testing purposes. These will be effectively full user accounts with Kerberos principals.
nsu (in conjunction with netgroups) for users to
share filespace is in principle discouraged, given that it will
not be available with future secure filesystem technology.
However, in the meantime it has to be used as we don't have time
to provide alternatives to current pseudo-user/nsu/netgroup
arrangements (such as 'cs1').
Jeremy presented a more detailed timetable for deployment. The dates for internal events were discussed and most accepted. The following were noted:
The issue of RedHat 7.1 vs 7.2 was raised. It was agreed that the base version would be 7.1 but that there would be instances of full 7.2 systems or some 7.2 applications rebuilt for 7.1. It is anticipated that 7.2 can come in gradually rather than having to be a total changeover.
Internal events --------------- * minimal standard client (all relevant rpms ported) 30 May - includes standalone minimal laptop * local site infrastructure 30 Jun - transit routers and DICE networks 30 May - ldap/kerberos/print servers at each site 30 May - dump facilities for mail/web 30 Jun * central infrastructure 30 Jun - mail 15 Jun - web 30 Jun - mailing lists 30 Jun - account creation possible 30 May * NFS service 30 May * pilot login server(s) 30 May * printing (legacy) via DICE 30 Jun * machines ordered for BP/FH/SB 30 May External events --------------- * common home directories 30 May - groups unification as appropriate at each site 15 May - setting up /legacy 30 May - switching users to primary 30 May * inf accounts ready for all current staff 30 May - UUN issues sorted 30 May * legacy mail redirected to @inf 15 Jul - requires mail agents review to be complete 30 May - soon after majority of users can use DICE. * remaining students move to SMS mailboxes 30 Jun - largely administrative * inf accounts ready for all current students ??? * support facilities 30 Jun - web form - fault tracking * new machines decided/notified/ordered (BP/FH/SB) 30 May - groups finalised - groups notified * teaching usage of DICE 30 Jun - which students using DICE 30 May - software availability 30 Jul * associate accounts mail changeoverEveryone was asked to check the dates of external events and add any relevant dates to their section of the Goals/Milestones page.
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