I've added permissions for "general access" and "view server details" to the TSS group.  I'm sure they will all use this power for good and not evil.

I'm a little befuddled as to what our mission is transmongrifing into.  Today is the deadline to submit our suggestions for projects that need ETF funds, but I'm guessing from Dr. Hoit's announcement today that expanding our student lab services is no longer strategic.

I just had a converstation with some collegues from the colleges, and picked up some tidbits to share.

Dr. Hoit met with some college level representatives (the AITD, I'm guessing from his twitter feed) and discussed the need to trim $1M from the University IT budget.  It was unclear where this number came from, if it was a hypothectical, or a mandate, or even a self set goal.

The scripts I'm using to populate, manage and test the Windows drivers on WolfPrint have been copied into subversion.  The repo is

https://svn.unity.ncsu.edu/svn/print/trunk/sambascripts/

It's private to unix systems folks (I think) as the source has some sql passwords in it.

It's pretty raw, as a work in progress, so don't expect a README or nuttin. :-)

We've removed the "directory" xteam from xteams.oit.ncsu.edu

Traffic is redirected to the WolfTech site (soon to be redirected to teh "activedirectory" portion thereof) and the cron jobs generating rss and other tasks has been halted.

The folks in ITECS and elsewhere on campus are working extremely closely together on projects involving sub-silos of OIT-ISO.  Projects like Active Directory, VMWare, and the like are early examples, and others appear to be "in the pipe"

Our current privacy on this site is set by organizational hierarchy (Public, OIT only, ISO only, OIT-ISO-SHS only, etc) and is going to need to be extended, adapted, or modified to allow folks not in the org chart access to technical details.

I have some thoughts about ways that we could reduce the monthly cost of doing business.  I think it might be possible to save enough money to meet our budget reversion needs without actually taking away the symbolic on-call compensation.

Hi Folks,

In instant message, Billy B. shared with me a quick summary of a meeting he had this morning with Debbie and Harry.

Billy Beaudowin: I asked for 2 names as "candidates" for the infrastructure-level/domain admin type responsibilities. I expect to start training people, and then assuming the committee rubber stamps the specific people later, like I honestly expect, I'll have had a couple weeks jump on the knowledge sharing

I've just modified Unity.ad to hold the attributes uidNumber, gidNumber, and uid in the global catalog, using the info from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/248717

The "global catalog" is a partial replica of the account information needed to log in to the domain, used for performace so that users don't have to chase referrals when trying to login.

These particular attributes are used by Samba, in particular the 3.3 release that we're migrating towards, in identity management between the AD domain and the posix world.

The wolfprep.unity.ad.ncsu.edu server is an early experiment based on fedora core 4

It needs to die, but is currently hosting

- auditlogin data gathering from nds03fs?