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"
• 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