Committee Changeovers

Introduction

This is a dummies guide and checklist for the admins outlining what needs to be done during the changeover from one committee to the next.

The Changeover

Committee Group

All members of the committee should be added to the committee (committe - yes, there is only meant to be one e in it) group. This will allow them to read and edit the committee-owned documents.

$ useradm convert
RETURN: use [default] given  TAB: answer completion  EOF: give empty answer

Enter username
[no default] >> $new_committee_member

Conversion usertype must be specified. List of valid usertypes:
  member       Normal member
  associat     Graduate/associate member
  staff        DCU staff member
  committe     Committee member or a position account
  society      DCU society
  club         DCU club
  dcu          DCU related account
  projects     RedBrick/DCU/Course project account
  redbrick     RedBrick related account
  intersoc     Account for society from another college
  guest        Guest account

Special committee positions (usertype is 'committe'):
  admin        Elected admin
  helpdesk     Elected helpdesk
  webmaster    Elected webmaster

Enter conversion usertype
(hints) [no default] >> committe

Enter who updated this user (give Unix username)
[root] >> atlas

User converted: $new_committee_member -> committe
Account converted: $new_committee_member -> committe
Subscribed: $new_committee_member@redbrick.dcu.ie

This changes the gidNumber of the user in LDAP to 100 (the committee group). It also subscribes the user to the committee mailing list. Do this for each of the new committee members.

IRC

#lobby

Add each user to the #lobby access list, with a level of 10 (or 40 for admins).

/msg chanserv access #lobby add *!$new_committee_member@redbrick.dcu.ie 10

Wiki

Committee wiki

Add the new committee members to /webtree/redbrick/htdocs/cmt/.htaccess

Webmaster

Add the webmaster to the LDAP webgroup

$ ldapmodify -D cn=root,ou=ldap,o=redbrick -x -y /etc/ldap.secret
  dn: cn=webgroup,ou=groups,o=redbrick
  changetype: modify
  add: memberUid
  memberUid: $new_webmaster

  modifying entry “cn=helpdesk,ou=groups,o=redbrick”

Add the webmaster to the webmaster mailing list (webmaster@lists.redbrick.dcu.ie) on lists

Helpdesk

Add each member to the helpdesk mailing lists (TODO, list all lists).

Add each member to the LDAP helpdesk group:

$ ldapmodify -D cn=root,ou=ldap,o=redbrick -x -y /etc/ldap.secret
  dn: cn=helpdesk,ou=groups,o=redbrick
  changetype: modify
  add: memberUid
  memberUid: $new_helpdesk_member1
  memberUid: $new_helpdesk_member2
  memberUid: $new_helpdesk_member3
  modifying entry "cn=helpdesk,ou=groups,o=redbrick"

Admins

The tricky ones...

  • Add each member to the admin mailing lists (rb-admins and elected-admins).
  • Add each member to the LDAP root group:
$ ldapmodify -D cn=root,ou=ldap,o=redbrick -x -y /etc/ldap.secret
  dn: cn=root,ou=groups,o=redbrick
  changetype: modify
  add: memberUid
  memberUid: $new_admin_member1
  memberUid: $new_admin_member2
  memberUid: $new_admin_member3**
  modifying entry "cn=root,ou=groups,o=redbrick"