[NCUC E-team] NCUC Archive

[William Drake]

Very happy to see you folks pulling this together, thanks much for the help Tapani.

BD

On Jan 15, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Tapani Tarvainen <ncuc at TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO> wrote:

> Dear Pranesh,
> 
> I'm so glad to see you're going to take an active role here
> that I'll step in and give you the access you ask for - I trust
> nobody minds.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:38:31AM -0500, Pranesh Prakash (pranesh at cis-india.org) wrote:
> 
>> Would you be so kind as to create a user account for me ('sol') with
>> ssh access (I've attached my ssh key's RSA fingerprint) and an entry
>> in the sudoers file?
> 
> Done. Username "pranesh".
> 
>> (Does it run Linux or *BSD?)
> 
> Ubuntu 12.04.
> 
>> Also, what format is the member's database in, and where is it stored?
> 
> PostgreSQL. Take a look at
> 
> http://lists.ncuc.org/pipermail/e-team/2013-December/000525.html
> 
> Actually you might wish to read all of my messages to the e-team
> list in December, you'll find many of your questions answered there.
> 
>> NCUC is right now using a self-signed cert. We should migrate to a
>> CA-provided cert, and the two better options seem to be Gandi.net
>> and StartSSL. Gandi.net's wildcard certs are much more expensive
>> than StartSSL, but StartSSL only issues Class 2 wildcard certs
>> (meaning we need send them a little bit of paperwork about NCUC),
>> while Gandi.net issues Class 1 wildcard certs too.
> 
> I'd thought NCUC would get along without a wildcard certificate,
> just use a few single-address certs (maybe just one, simply use
> "https://ncuc.org/whatever" type URLS for everything, redirecting
> subdomains as needed).
> At least that'd be easy to start with as Gandi gives one for free
> for one year.
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen
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