ASS

ASS is an initialism or acronym representing "Administrators of Systems and Security".

The ASSes are the oldest working group at Free Geek. They are the people who design and manage the network at Free Geek, and are responsible for developing our IT security policy.

You'd think this would mean we'd have a better wiki section =:)

Members

(ASSes, please list yourselves here):

• Martin Chase
• Michael Westwind
• Richard Seymour
• wren ng thornton
• Dave Haskins
• Kenny
• Joren
• Jeff
• Paul Brett
• Matteo
• Vagrant
• Stacy

Vancouver, BC, Canada ASSes:

• agent humble

Ongoing Tasks

• RootMail Cleanup - Often (Matteo)
• Tape Swapping - Weekly (Richard)
• Test UPSes in server room - once per week/ASS meeting/month
• apt-get upgrade - once per month or sooner if critical security holes
• freekbox dist-upgrade - weekly chroot into /usr/local/clones/freekbox/ and do and update/dist-upgrade
• Reporting debian bugs

  $ reportbug PACKAGENAME - or - $ reportbug --no-check-available PACKAGENAME

  http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting

  http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Access

• updating netboot

  http://ftp.debian.org/dists/ * /main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ * /main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/

• Services provided to other groups

Projects

LDAP

To integrate our account management and make it possible to change email passwords.

So far we have

• the ldap server itself is built, with ldap and sldap installed
• we did a test run for authenticating a user on a remote machine which "worked"

What we need

• to better define how we will use ldap
• to create better schema for our purposes
• possibly put the ldap server into the dmz, if we want to authenticate mail with it.
• review and update the security on the server (passwords, webmin, &c.)

More fun

Some folks at Free Geek or in our extended community are CA Cert Assurers. See the page.

What services do we provide