Removing users from sysadmin-* accounts

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:55, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:59:21PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> System administration is a privilege as it gives access and control over
>> many users resources and data. In order to best protect those assets, it
>> is a normal procedure to remove people who do not seem to have need for
>> that access anymore. Fedora Infrastructure policy is to remove special
>> access to people who have not been using it in 60 days. Having gone
>> through the user lists in wtmp, web logs and other data the following
>> accounts will be removed from various system administration groups.
>>
>> People who are removed may reapply later to the infrastructure program
>> when they feel they need access again. Accounts will not be removed
>> from the infrastructure mailing list.
>>
>> Accounts will be removed by 2011-03-17 2000 UTC.
>>
> [...snip...]
>> cmsadmin cyrushmh
>> cmsadmin itbegins
>> cmsadmin matheo
>> cmsadmin schendje
>> cmsadmin teb
>> cmsadmin wonderer
> [...snip...]
>
> What timing!  At the Insight meeting on Monday we agreed to do this
> ourselves:
> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2011-03-14/insight.2011-03-14-19.01.html

No just me clicking on things by hand. If you are going to do it, I
will leave it to you.

> If this is going to happen through a script, and not by someone
> personally having to do more work on our team's behalf, I'll just let
> it happen since it includes everyone we mentioned in our meeting.
> There are a couple people on this list who are actually involved with
> our group.  But if they're not logging in on the instance to exercise
> this group membership, they probably don't need it right now.  So no
> arguments here.
>
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