[SAC] server space at telascience

[Frank Warmerdam]

Benjamin Thelen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I'm Benjamin, systems administrator of CCGIS/Bonn in Germany.
> Arnulf told me, that there possibly will be server space, an incredibly
> fast blade server :-), at telascience for hosting mapbender.org 
> (mediawiki, postgresql) itself and maybe some other related stuff.
> 
> 
> Also, there is a request on OSGeo-Edu to install a wiki for the EOGEO
> FreeGIS Book. I think, that this would be a good opportunity to
> move wiki.osgeo.org to telascience, too, to have it all together.
> 
> What do you think?

Benjamin,

Indeed, I'm keen to have this setup.  My only concern is which machine to
put it on, how to keep the various services segregated, and whether we
ought to be looking at having the freegis book wiki using the LDAP
service for user authentication so folks can share a signon between in
and other services.

 From a "which machine to put it on" point of view, we have had a delay in
getting some of the blades configured due to issues with a "kickstart server".
So, for now, we have one system with LDAP running on it, but we are trying to
keep this system quite secure, so we likely don't want too much else on it.

We have another system with a variety of software already installed.  We
could use it, but I think if we do, then we need to treat this system as
"medium security" and not provide shell accounts on it widely (to the
geodata processing folks for instance) for fear of messing up important
services (starting with this wiki).

Another service we would like to get setup is a bug database, initially for
Mapbender, but later for other projects too, such as GDAL.  All in all, I
think we need some careful planning of where things go to avoid services
conflicting, or stuff getting lost in a tangle of different running systems
all on the same machine.

So the system I was thinking of is 198.202.74.218 described at:

   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/SAC_Service_Status

Lastly, is there anyone but Hobu currently who can create new LDAP users?
If not, we will need to wait for him to return from vacation.  I think he
will be back Monday.  We *really* need to spread around knowledge of how
LDAP stuff works so others can create users soon.

Best regards,
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