DESY Zeuthen Status Report

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DESY Zeuthen Status Report

• Wolfgang Friebel
• AFS news
• Installation management with suecfengine
• System watch with patrol
• Linux desktop PCs
• X11 environment
• Security
• Trouble ticket system
• WNT

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AFS news

• Request for AFS support in the batch system
  CODINE
• proposal for AFS support sent to GENIAS
• (will be similar to support in Loadleveler)
• working version expected soon (end 98?)
• Request for AFS support in Legato Networker
• should be similar to support for Windows NT
• no reaction at all thus far
• Work in progress on AFS/Kerberos4 environment
• based on free Kerberos sources from Sweden
• (free of US export restrictions)
• login and xlock taken from distribution
• xdm and (wu-)ftpd modified by A. Wachsmann

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Installation management with suecfengine

• working version with support from CERN
• (see talk by A. Wachsmann)
• System watch with patrol
• new release with WWW interface from M. Jung
• (see talk by W. Friebel)
• Linux desktop PCs
• work to establish a standard Linux desktop
  installation
• (see talk by T. Kleinwort)

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X11 environment

• HEPiX X11 environment version 3.2.2 (CERN) in
  production
• fvwm2 will replace mwm and fvwm window managers
• KDE under investigation
• Security
• Security policies for PCs (by category)
• CERT recommendations followed by installing
  patches
• remarkable increase of security attacks (approx 2
  per week seen)

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Trouble ticket system

• read Remedy Manuals, then installed own system
  based on req
• (see talk by W. Friebel)
• WNT
• Application support with NetInstall
• Automation of domain administration tasks
• (see talk by G. Trowitzsch)