IMC-Docs Working Group Tools
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Changelogs
Whenever you do something on any of the servers, please complete the appropriate Changelog! Their organization is explained on
KompostInfo#Collective_sysadmin.
Adding a shell user to humus
Note : this should also work on kompost and other VServers, but might have to be adapted.
Create user
sudo adduser USER
Give him/her a strong password (for example, use the pwgen program to generate it), and paste it in
/home/USER/password. This will be used for sudo only, since password login is disabled on humus (only pubkey ssh login allowed).
Add him/her to the
docs group :
sudo adduser USER docs
Create
/home/USER/.ssh owned by USER:USER, with permissions 700. Copy USER's public ssh key into
/home/USER/.ssh/authorized_keys, taking care to give this file 600 permissions and USER:USER as owner.
Sudo
sudo visudo
Depending on what the user needs to do, give him/her :
- either full sudo rights :
USER ALL=(ALL) ALL
- or sudo rights to admin TWIki :
USER ALL=(ALL) TWIKIADMIN
- or nothing at all.
Email
Ask
listwork@sos.indymediaSTOPSPAM.org to add USER's email address to the
imc-docs-sysadmin@indymediaSTOPSPAM.org email alias, so that he/she receives metche reports and misc. root email.
Make sure he/she is subscribed to imc-docs and imc-docs-tech mailing lists.
Warning : this email address will receive sensitive information ; therefore it has use TLS end-to-end, ie. :
- hosted on a mailserver speaking TLS with indymedia's mail server
- fetched/read with imaps / pop3s
Welcome
Ask USER to read our documentation, and especially
KompostInfo#Collective_sysadmin.
FIXME : write a page with links to the appropriate web pages / documentation.
Grepping for spam
This seems to work:
SPAMTERM='viagra'; sudo egrep -r $SPAMTERM /var/www/docs.indymedia.org/data/* | egrep -v '^/var/www/docs.indymedia.org/data/\w*/\w*\.txt,v:'
You need to specify the spam term (formatted as a regular expression) as SPAMTERM first. And you may want to pipe the output into less (
| less ) or redirect it to a text file (
>> topics_containing_spam.txt ).
TWiki Tools
Removing Users
There is a script on the server called
twikirmuser.sh - you need to be a sudoer to be able to run it.
In case
TWikiUsers gets fucked up, you can regenerate it like this:
cat ../.htpasswd | sed -e 's/^/ * /' | sed -e "s/:.*$//" | sort | sed -e 's/$/\n/' > TWikiUsers.txt
How to roll back a topic (revert to previous version)
How to reset the password of a user through the twiki website
- you need to be in the TWikiAdminGroup
- go to InstallPassword
- Fill the box with UserName:zK.G.uuPi39Qg so UserName has now the password guest ('zK.G.uuPi39Qg' is a hash for 'guest' in .htpasswd)
- Change the password for a better one at ChangePassword
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