March 2011 - admins-discuss@lists.redbrick.dcu.ie

[Admin-discuss] rbadmins.redbrick.dcu.ie
by Austin Halpin 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

So, as I promised at the AGM. I want to try and create some form of an rbadmins blog. That could be filled with useful tech/admin posts by the current rootholders. Receive suggested setting up a Planet and have it point to various rootholders' independent blogs, so as to make life easier and encourage people to post. I think this is a much better idea than just one wordpress blog that only gets updated by one person (which is what would probably happen after a little while) Opinions, suggestions?

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[Admin-discuss] HG over SSH
by Andrew Martin 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hi all Meant to send this weeks ago, but oh well. Currently, push access to hg.redbrick.dcu.ie is via HTTP authentication, which uses mod_authnz_ldap to check passwords. This is suboptimal for two reasons - firstly, I don't like websites asking for passwords any way other then pubcookie (hi webgroup!), and secondly, it means you have to type your password every time you push new code, which is a pain in the neck. I'd like to copy the setup on git.redbrick.dcu.ie - using SSH keys, managed through a special admin repository. It should be relatively easy to replicate most of the gitosis functionality (or at least the important bits). The only issue is that to do this, I'll have to break HTTPS push access, meaning everyone using hg will have to set up their SSH keys. Since this is only about 5 users, it's not a *huge* issue, but anyone object to anything? Any comments/suggestions on the git/hg hosting setup? This list has been a bit dead recently, somebody say something :) -Andrew

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[Admin-discuss] Nginx
by Austin Halpin 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Can we use nginx on carbon? It seems cool and I want to learn how to play with it. carbon isn't exactly a dedicated webserver either so it wouldn't interfere with anything. Thoughts?

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