[IMC-Tech] Web-server Accounts

[dan blah]

how do the active imc-tech members and admins feel about having a
private list for these type of matters?  i know the global imc-tech
group has a similar list, tech-secure, for issues of this nature.

On 5/2/07, Josh King <joshuaheretic at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dave,
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> It's not that the issue was very urgent, it just happened to come up
> suddenly and was quickly dealt with. I have personally sent out emails
> to Matt and Ross, although I realize that it is after the fact and a bit
> late, for which I apologize. There is nothing preventing administrative
> access from being reinstated later, but the action being made I see no
> particular reason to change it at the moment. I think that it's
> reasonable not to have administrative accounts on IMC systems that
> belong to people who aren't beholden to the IMC in any way and share no
> responsibility for the disposition of those systems. There was a reason
> for those accounts to have admin access before, and now there isn't. I'm
> sorry if the actions seem rash or rude, but I felt that a discussion of
> why emotions might be running high or quick actions might be taken due
> to political matters internal to CUWiN wasn't something to be placed on
> a public list. It was not my intent to hurt any feelings by posting
> this, I just have a personal policy of posting updates to this list of
> actions and events pertaining to the IMC's systems and Chambana.net for
> which I am partly or wholly responsible and which may affect others. As
> for asking the list, I know that Dan or I rarely consult the list for
> the simple reason that it is a very low-traffic list. I freely admit
> that the whole matter could perhaps been handled better, so I'm sorry
> about that.
>
> David Young wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:57:42PM -0500, Josh King wrote:
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> >> Hi everyone-
> >>
> >> This is just a routine heads up to the IMC-Tech list that a couple of
> >> accounts (rgmussel, isaacsm) were removed from wheel on our web-server,
> >> zeco. These accounts are CUWiN user accounts, and this move was simply
> >> because the users are not IMC-Tech members and CUWiN has decided to host
> >> their website on separate hardware from zeco, it was the opinion of I
> >> and another sysadmin that routine least-privileges practice would
> >> suggest downgrading the accounts from administrator, due to lack of
> >> need. If they expressed an interest in joining UCIMC and IMC-Tech, or if
> >> CUWiN expressed a continued genuine need for administrative access to
> >> zeco, we would be more than happy to reinstate that access. This is in
> >> keeping with the informal policy of apprising the list of technical and
> >> administrative issues.
> >
> > Was this so urgent that you could not have asked the mailing list, Ross,
> > and Matt ahead of removing their accounts from wheel?
> >
> > Dave
> >
>
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Daniel