[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Fwd: NewAdmin process

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org
Sat Oct 7 15:13:15 UTC 2006


On 10/7/06, Ahmed Kamal <email.ahmedkamal at googlemail.com> wrote:
> About, the scarce workforce, I have tried to join many projects, but got
> lost! For instance, my last attempt was at helping with the firewall
> re-write. I contacted Luke, who was very responsive and helpful, albeit a
> bit busy. Me not knowing anything about the servers, the network layout, or
> even the requirements for the firewall, I just couldn't do anything to help
> :(
>
> Well, perhaps, I should be tackling some priority 2 problems (to be simpler
> & of lower urgency), such as the "aliases" issue. I have no problem
> following this task if someone would tell me what needs to be done. Ideally,
> I would click on the project name, to get a detailed page saying:
> 1- Login to x.xx.xx.xx using some auth account
> 2- Query the ldap server at yy.yy.yy.yy
> 3- Write a script to verify all aliases against /etc/mail/aliases

The aliases thing is actually a flat file, we need someone to verify
that there aren't spaces/special characters in the file, just that the
aliases actually work and that we aren't breaking anything.

              -Mike




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