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February 2003 Archive

• 2/26/03
  • /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf has been edited to allow [home] writability.
  • New plans for the web server. It's still going to do all the stuff I said, but it's now going to be a drop-in replacement for maccarony.
• 2/24/03
  • We're setting up butterfly.udel.edu as an Ultra 1 which is going to be taking over all the hosting duties for ntp.org. Also, I've been working on my proof-of-concept NTP web page, and it's looking pretty nice.
• 2/19/03
  • I have griped to have maccarony resolve as maccarony.udel.edu in addition to ntp.org. I really hate looking for "maccarony" and not being able to find it.
• 2/14/03
  • Steve and I did a lot of revamping of the ntp web site today.
  • Rackety and grundoon are running old openssh but I'm not sure what to do about that.
• 2/13/03
  • Doing some final testing from all the hosts to all the other hosts with ssh. It takes a long time.
  • Results from the testing are available as users conner and root.
  • We officially don't care about hepzibah and snavely's minor ssh problems.
• 2/12/03
  • Did a monsterous amount of SSH fixing today. Changed .shosts on deacon, updated host key links on howland and beauregard, and changed some SUID bits on ssh-keysign on howland and beauregard.
  • Moved pogo:/etc/inet/ipnodes to pogo:/usr/local/etc/ipv6_ipnodes_common and symlinked it on pogo, baldwin, and bridgeport.
  • The above fix for ipnodes didn't fix ssh ipv6 login on bridgeport. I am mystified, but blame Harish.
  • Current problems: Snavely can't ssh to snavely (!), and hepzibah can't ssh to mort.
  • /pogo -> /m/pogo on albert constructed. This faciliates automated NTP building. Requested by Stenn.
• 2/11/03
  • A minor water leak has occured in the lab. Not too big a deal. Authorities are notified.
  • EECIS says changes will propagate tomorrow. I can resume fixing SSH then.
  • Been talking to Steve Kostecke, the ntp.org webmaster, about things to do to the web site.
• 2/10/03
  • Working on more sshd stuff. IPv6 ssh should be working once the proepr EECIS stuff has been done. I griped it.
  • Some of the machines, the backroom especially, have very old ssh_known_hosts that prevents some logins. I will update all of these once the new ipv6 stuff comes down from eecis.
  • Snavely's host key was messed up in the database operations over ssh involving snavely will be funky until I propagate the known hosts through. This is due to the install script helping us out a little too much.
  • I'm going to wait for the known hosts files to stabilize again.
• 2/8/03
  • Worked from home today due to the snow.
  • The web page I made now works ok in netscape 4 and internet explorer 5 for Mac OS X.
  • Emailed the webdudes list about it. Thought I was emailing the webmaster only. Oops.
• 2/7/03
  • Added stuff to pogo:/etc/distfile to send ssh_known_hosts2 files around. Let's see if it works.
  • Someone look at my work for the day, dangit. I spent a LONG time on it and I need some love.
• 2/5/03
  • Hepzibah is working for ssh to pogo now.
• 2/4/03
  • My proposal for porkypine is to have an RSA key for pogo's root user that will allow login. I don't quite know how to configure the RSA login stuff for ssh 1.2.27, and there is no manpage for that version on porkypine.
  • SSH from host to pogo as root is confirmed working for:
    • Albert
    • Baldwin
    • Beauregard
    • Bridgeport
    • Bunnylou
    • Cowbird
    • Deacon
    • Hepzibah
    • Howland
    • Malarky
    • Mort
    • Snavely
    • Whimsy
  • SSH isn't working properly from host to pogo on:
    • Churchy (?)
    • Porkypine
  • I can't test grundoon's or rackety's ssh->pogo since I can't SU
  • ssh_known_hosts{'','2'} have been manually distributed to cowbird/bunnylou, albert, snavely, and hepzibah.
  • Dealing with EECIS has been frustrating today. I've been waiting for them to get hepzibah into the mills netgroup so I can test hepzibah->pogo.
• 2/3/03
  • Terminals have been reactivated on albert again.
  • Albert is ready for full-time duty.
  • The EECIS crew (BMiller) are updating the known hosts files.
  • The following machines have hostbased auth working with root at pogo:
    • albert
    • baldwin
    • beauregard
    • bridgeport
    • bunnylou
    • cowbird
    • deacon
    • grundoon
    • hepzibah
    • howland
    • malarky
    • mort
    • rackety
    • snavely
    • whimsy
  • Notable exceptions to the above list are:
    • Porkypine
    • Churchy
  • Messed with porkypine a bit, notabley with /.rhosts. No luck.
  • RSA-host-based auth on porkypine is an interest that I'll look at another time, like tomorrow.

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