[sf-lug] SF-LUG 2007-04-16 & administrators of sf-lug.com. host

[jim stockford]

    Super, hope you make it. Great topics.
    There's the usual neglect common to LUGs and
other by-the-people, for-the-people hosts. There
is no hard-and-fast policy and most things are
easy to change (and should be changed/updated).
    I'll be at the Monday night meeting for sure.
Looking forward.
jim


On Apr 14, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Michael Paoli wrote:

> SF-LUG 2007-04-16 & administrators of sf-lug.com. host
>
> So, ... I'm curious - any idea how many of the system administrators
> of the sf-lug.com. host will be at the SF-LUG 2007-04-16 meeting?  I
> was thinking of attending that meeting (a bit out of my way, but would
> be good to have some discussions regarding administration of the 
> system).
>
> If you're planning to attend the SF-LUG 2007-04-16 meeting please feel
> free to drop me a note.  I do also plan to be at the BALUG meeting
> 2007-04-17, which is also in San Francisco (and probably BAD on
> 2007-04-18, and almost certainly BUUG on 2007-04-19 ... okay, so I
> usually don't make it to *that* many user group meetings in a single
> week).
>
> At least some of the various issues/questions/topics for discussion
> that come up (or at least I think of) for the host include items such
> as:
> o better defining "rules of the road" to avoid potential conflicts or
>   problems
> o does sf-lug *really* want most of the host administrative chatter on
>   the sf-lug list, or might it be preferable to have a separate list
>   for that?  (or maybe decide if/when that becomes an issue)
> o /etc/motd and /home/sflug/{admin,rhcte,python}/policies - /etc/motd
>   ... a bit long, but it references those policies files, but what
>   those files state, and the reality reflected on the system seem to
>   be becoming increasingly out-of-sync.  E.g.
>   /home/sflug/admin/policies notes that there are 5 users in
>   /etc/sudoers ... there are in fact 9 that have unrestricted
>   superuser (root) access (access to or exceeding unrestricted general
>   shell as root).  That file also indicates "currently all persons
>   with login accounts on this host are members of the webmasters group
>   and the sflug group" ... in fact at least some aren't members of
>   group sflug ... which makes reading the
>   /home/sflug/{admin,rhcte,python}/policies files referenced in
>   /etc/motd rather difficult:
>   drwxrwx---  23 sflug sflug 4096 Feb 11 12:13 /home/sflug
>   Now, I certainly wouldn't want to presume that permissions there
>   should be o+rx for the directory(/ies) and o+r for the files, as it
>   might possibly well be the case that someone intended to prevent
>   those that aren't members of group sflug from accessing some
>   files/directories (or even determining the names of the files) in,
>   or beneath the /home/sflug directory.
> o What's the role of sf-lug.org. vs. sf-lug.com.?  Will users (most
>   notably web site visitors) get confused if/when they're not
>   identical or if/when they contain distinct and conflicting
>   information?
> Anyway, ... many potential areas to examine, but that at least
> scratches the surface of examples of some areas that may call for some
> closer examination and discussion.
>
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