Category:Admin

Remeis Admin-Page

This page is only internally visible to the Admins.

Lab Course

• Before the lab course:
  • check the PCs in the Meridian building:
    • they should all be functional, broken ones should be replaced
    • in total we should have about 10 computers available for the students
  • Setup the prakti accounts
• Introduction to Computers/Linux for Lab Students

Serendipitous Issues

• Typical login problems
• unmet dependencies issue in apt-get
• overflow file system

Add new Users

• Go to the remeis internal homepage -> admin -> LDAP
• Fill out the necessary fields, including a valid email address. If possible, also fill out the fields for room and telephone number.
• Log into LDAP, go to import and copy the text of the previous step. Important: if the user is external, "current" in the first line has to be changed to "external"

Warning The way to set the users password directly via passwd is currently broken. Use the following command instead:

ldappasswd -H ldap://taurus.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de -x -D "cn=admin,dc=sternwarte,dc=uni-erlangen,dc=de" -W -S "uid=[USERNAME],ou=[current OR external],ou=People,dc=sternwarte,dc=uni-erlangen,dc=de"

When doing so you will have to enter the user's new password twice and AFTER that the LDAP admins password, which is the same as when logging into phpmyadmin.

• set the password of the user on taurus: sudo passwd [username]
• log in: ssh username@taurus
• currently only for X-ray group members: activate the X-ray scripts in the .cshrc
• Set the quota (on taurus), using a prototype which has normal quota sudo edquota -p [prototype] [username] (normal Quota is 8GB softlimit and 12GB hardlimit; it can be manually edited/shown with edquota -u user)
• if desired (in most cases), create a folder for the user at /userdata/data/[username] and adjust the permissions with sudo chown username:remeis username
• send Email to admin about the new user

Running Software / Updates / Setups

In this section a selection of services and their current configuration is described.

• CUPS (Printing Service)
• Virtual Boxes