Fileserver

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We need a fileserver (among other things) located at the space in order to facilitate working on and sharing files. This page will act as a design document for the services and setup of a proposed fileserver.

Directories

Directory Permissions Description
/home/username 0750 Home directory
/home/username/public 0755 Public file folder
/home/username/htdocs 0755 Personal website folder
/var/public/username Symlink to /home/username/public

Services

All authentication will be handled by LDAP.

SSH

  • Default shell will be bash
  • Use loginshell value from LDAP

FTP

  • Anonymous access to /var/public
  • Authenticated access to /home/username

HTTP

MySQL

All users have full permissions to username-% and ability to create DBs

SMB/Samba

  • \\servername\username for /home/username (authenticated)
  • \\servername\public for /var/public

Local Repo Mirror

  • Ubuntu
    • Latest release and latest LTS release
    • 32 and 64 bit
    • Server, Alt and Desktop
  • Debian
    • Latest release
    • 32 and 64 bit
  • Fedora
    • Latest release
    • 32 and 64 bit
    • Desktop

PXEBOOT

  • Installs of Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora
  • Memtest86+
  • Other diag tools

NTP

  • Why not?
  • Sync it with GPS just because it's cool?

Hardware

Andrew LeCody has donated a 1u Supermicro server with a hardware raid card and bays for 4 hot-swapable SATA drives. If all 4 bays are used, we can setup a RAID 5 or RAID 10.