Sysadmin:New Sysadmins

There are quite a few areas to update when a new system administrator joins the admin group (and some of these apply to someone leaving the group, actually...).

Keys

New sysadmins get a copy of CAA8 (D221) and CAX (Dennis outside door). These need to be requested with a form (which can be picked up at campus security or in Bobbi's office) and signed by the new sysadmin and by either Charlie, Jim or, Randy.

Bookkeeping

Sysadmins need to register for CS281: Applied Groups. They can either take the class for zero, one, or two credit hours. Have the new admins contact Jim with their preferences.

E-mails

• The new admins need to be added to the CS-Admin mailing list.
• Nagios needs to be updated to include the users in e-mails sent out. This doesn't go to the mailing list in case the CS department's e-mail stack is part of the problem. Also there are sys admin alumns on the mailing list who don't need to know about servers going down on a daily basis.
• The usernames need to be added to the root alias on Quark in /etc/aliases Update: 6/19/09: Root now goes to the admin mailing list, so this is no longer true.

Accounts/Permissions

There are a few (physical) machines that don't use NIS and need to have users added by hand:

• Forty-Two - if it's up and running by then
• Forty-One
• Backup

Users need to have a wiki account created for them on this wiki, and in NIS, users need to be added to the wheel group.

Passwords

There are lots of them.