Meeting:2008/07/17

Meeting (to be) held on 2008/07/17 at 19:00 in Mary Campbell Room

Previous meeting: 3 July 2008 19:00:00 Next meeting: 24 July 2008 19:00:00

Agenda

SOWN Projects Group (SOWN-PG)

Progress on:

• SOWN VoIP
• 802.1x
• Location Tracking
• SOWN Portal

Other Issues

• SOWN-related interns introduction

• ECS Guest accounts for leaving SOWN members
  • crwilliams's, jonl's, Paul's and Morse's accounts created

• WiMax proposal from Bluenowhere
  • Action required on furthering this based on Davetaz's approval. (technical details etc so we can approach buildings & estates)

• Sown-6core rebooted.
  • Reason for failure: Kernel panic. Can we figure out why?
  • SjH looked at this the other day, but there wasn't anything obvious that caused it
  • Morse to add a reboot timeout of approx 30mins-1hour so that it will reboot but only after nagios has spotted it in future events.
• News on Soekris board
  • Shaun Ford will make sure it is returned to daveruss when it comes back
  • hasn't done so yet...

• Community Account Requests
  • daveruss has responded to all requests up to 14:57 on 17/07/2008.

• Login page
  • Repeated headers problem
    • Fixed, hopefully
  • Modification to allow eduroamers
    • Added by crwilliams and appears to work
  • Change in how different accounts are authenticated.
    • Ensure that LDAP is still used for statistics on soton users
    • SjH to enquire as to gaining access to ISS radius at some point.

• Does useradmin_users.php need to be implemented. If so what is it for?
  • Yes: it is a list of all home users/banned users/node admins for node admins to administer (its now on todo list)

• Progress on Todo list
  • SjH has implemented a register MAC address page on admin site. (https://sown-auth.ecs.soton.ac.uk/admin/useradmin_macregister.php).
    • Currently all user levels have the ability to register up to 2 manual mac addresses (They are destinguished from dhcp added macs by a new field cunningly called 'manual') There is an array at the top of the php file that allows you to specify the number of macs per user level. (it is commented).

• AOB