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MacOSX Lion allows everybody to login (with LDAP)
by Nico Schottelius 23 Aug '11

23 Aug '11

fyi and fun: http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Mac-OS-X-Lion-prueft-Passwoerter-bei-A… Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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Deploy and bootstrap Macs
by Steven Armstrong 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hi So I have a new task on my table: Deploy and bootstrap Macs So far we have installed and configured munki [1] to deploy software. Is working nice so far. + simple to install/use + server is just a webserver - maintaining the software packages and catalog will probably be time intensive (not specific to munki, general problem) For imaging and unattended installations DeployStudio [2] seems the way to go. But haven't used it yet. A bunch of questions for ya all: How are you guys managing your macs? Anybody here know what ID are up to? There once where rumors that they will have a fancy 'manage the mac tool' sometime real soon now ... Anybody implemented something like roaming profiles for mobile users? Quick and painless migration from machine to machine, e.g. when a laptop died? Anybody interested in sharing resources, e.g. maintain a munki repo together? Packaging software is stupid and boring. We could save a lot of time. Other thoughts, ideas? Please forward to your mac guy if he is not you or not on this list ;-) [1] http://code.google.com/p/munki/ [2] http://www.deploystudio.com/ Cheers, Steven -- Steven Armstrong Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich IT Management & Support Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB/H/88 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 25 24

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Fwd: munki
by Steven Armstrong 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Forward to list

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Fwd: Re: Deploy and bootstrap Macs
by Steven Armstrong 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Forward to list

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Fwd: Re: Deploy and bootstrap Macs
by Steven Armstrong 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Forwarding to list.

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Next generation Desktops
by Nico Schottelius 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

Good day, some of you may be aware that the ISG D-INFK is buying a new line of desktops from Lenovo [0]. But there is also an alternative available that should be considered and may be interesting for older and younger people in our group: The Commodore C64 and VIC-Slim running Ubuntu 10.10 [1], [2]. Cheers, Nico [0] Lenovo M91p [1] http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx [2] http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_VICSlim.aspx -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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Fwd: [infcoords] Special Lenovo offer for D-INFK
by Steven Armstrong 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

Vielleicht braucht ja sonst noch jemand an der ETH grad neue Püterchen :-) Der Preis scheint in der Tat ok zu sein. Gruss. Steven

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Petabytes on a budget -- interesting read
by Steven Armstrong 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-mo… 135-terabyte, 4U server for $7,384 Pitty we are not big enough to design our own hardware ... oh wait, actually we would be, but ... Cheers, Steven -- Steven Armstrong Institute of Computational Science, ETH Zurich IT Management & Support Universitaetsstrasse 6, CAB/H/88 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 632 25 24

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Reminder and Update for meeting tomorrow!
by Nico Schottelius 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Good morning Sysadmins, this is a reminder about our meeting tomorrow, focussing on configuration management. We'll have a presentation about cdist [0] as well as Config5, written and used by ISG D-INFK [1]. It'll probably be one of the most interesting meetings so far! Cheers, Nico [0] http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/ [1] Short abstract from Luca Previtali: --- Config5 is an open source configuration management utility for UNIX systems. It is particularly well suited to manage large numbers of systems in a heterogeneous enterprise where the configuration differs in the various organizational units. Configuration data can be edited centrally, making configuration changes an easy, straightforward, transparent, and traceable process. Configuration data can be verified for consistency which makes deployment more resilient to human errors. Config5 is highly customizable and extendable to support a broad variation of UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. --- -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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syslog intrusion detection / anomaly
by Nico Schottelius 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hey sysadmins, what tool do you use to (try to) detect anomalies / intrusions on your systems? I'm especially interested in tools operating on the syslog output. Cheers, Nico -- Systems Group Sysadmin Tel: +41 (0) 44 632 76 09 D-INFK/ETH Zurich

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