[6549] in Release_7.7_team
Re: new dialup testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Thu Dec 10 13:01:47 2009
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:01:12 -0500
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu, ops@mit.edu
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[Should bug reports go to somewhere other than these two lists?]
If I log in without forwarding credentials, it fails to attach my home
directory, and so I get
> Could not chdir to home directory /mit/nelhage: No such file or directory
without any more clear indication of what went wrong.
- Nelson
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:56:19PM -0500, Mark W. Manley wrote:
> Greetings, release-team members.
>
> As promised, I have created a prototype Linux dialup to which the members
> of this mailing list can telnet/ssh/rsh. Feel free to connect to:
>
> ringworld.mit.edu
>
> as yourself and kick some tires around. A few notes:
>
> 1. It's a prototype. I can't emphasize this point enough. As such, it
> has less memory and vCPUs than we plan for production use. We're
> planning now some dedicated VMWare hypervisors on which to run the
> dialups, but it may be a teeny bit of time before these come into
> fruition.
>
> 2. Because it's a prototype, I have restricted access to this box in two
> ways. One, you can only connect to it via a 18.x.x.x address. When we
> go to make these available to the general user community, it will cease
> to have this restriction. The other is that I have set PAM to disallow
> people that aren't receiving this mail from logging in. I took the
> people from the release-team mailing list and coded it into the
> access.conf file since dynamic lists weren't working so hot. This
> restriction will also vanish when we replace the current test.dialup box
> (cvp).
>
> I welcome constructive comments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -MM
