Sysadmin documentation

Hosts information

See: Hosting information template

Password policy

See: password policy template

Backup policy

See: packup policy template
Can use http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Setup a new developer account

sudo -s
export USER={NAME}
/usr/sbin/adduser $USER
mkdir /home/$USER/.ssh
touch /home/$USER/.ssh/authorized_keys
chown -R $USER.$USER /home/$USER
/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G webdev $USER
emacs /home/$USER/.ssh/authorized_keys
Add account into versioning system

Create a new project in versioning system

• Mercurial
• Subversion

Setup a new server (UAT & Production)

• Purchase the server
• Update DNS
• Lish access
• Deploy image
• Update reverse dns
• ...

Monitoring

See:

Standars bits

Standard ports

• 80 for web
• (25 for smtp, but only on mail server)
• 61326 for ssh
• 61349 for munin monitor (limited by ip)
• 61300 for webmin
• 61380 for nonstandard web stuff (munin view, soe stuff)

Standard URL

Access Removal Checklist

• Wiki:
• Server
• Email
• Systems:
• Skype
• Phone line
• Project access

Security

Can use https://www.grc.com

Get rid of a server

• Notify Sysadmin
• Do a backup on office server
• Arrange data transmission with client (eventually, work with on migration option)
• Burn a DVD and store it in {NAME}
• Stop automatic renewal of the server at provider and monitoring and other service
• Send a courtesy email just before termination to client
• Update page hosts info and projects pages