Category:Admin

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Remeis Admin-Page

This page is only internally visible to the Admins.


Lab Course

Serendipitous Issues

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 ( https://www.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de/intern/phpldapadmin/), 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: Use the LDAP query ldappasswd -H ldap://grus -x -D "cn=admin,dc=sternwarte,dc=uni-erlangen,dc=de" -W -S "uid={USERNAME},ou=current,ou=People,dc=sternwarte,dc=uni-erlangen,dc=de" while obviously adjusting the LDAP dn.
  • log in as ubuntuadmin on taurus and create the home directory like that: sudo mkdir /exports/disk1/{USERNAME} && sudo chown {USERNAME}:remeis /exports/disk1/{USERNAME}
  • 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)
  • Add the file for automatic forwarding of system emails: ~/.forward which should just contain the mail address of the new 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.