Project Universe: November 2002

Cosmos cannot survive alone in the modern world of increasing globalisation. ISD has a vision for a world class teaching and research Unix service. This will be achieved by dissolving the two existing Unix services and building a genuinely new service, Universe, and by truly radical thinking.

Summary of Project Universe

• finally backup and delete unused Cosmos accounts;
• backup and delete unused Eric accounts too;
  
  
• upgrade/patch/firewall Eric's 11 clients (ensure each no longer authenticates via Eric);
  
  
• patch Eric (Cosmos was very recently patched);
  
  
• add eUMIST/LDAP authentication to Eric;
• move from NIS+ to NIS on Eric;
  
  
• share Cosmos' disks with Eric if necessary;
• obtain and install new disks for Eric: 9Gb --> 36Gb;
  
  
• install software apps a la Cosmos on Eric;
  
  
• create Universe:
  • doctor Eric and Cosmos so both appear as Universe;
  • URS changes?
  • DNS entries for <username>.unix.umist.ac.uk;
  • determine policy for users (i.e., who goes on Eric, Cosmos);

• Eric Clients
• Patch Eric
• Old Cosmos Accounts
• Old Eric Accounts
• eUMISTifying Eric
• NIS Plus to NIS
• Universe
• Disks
• Applications
• Networking and Firewalling (ACL)s
• SSH vs Telnet and FTP
• Suggestions
• SNMP