How to add a new member

Rules

Admins may open shell accounts on foo in the following cases only:

• a new member decides to join the NemoMembers
• a prospective member is interested in joining but wants to test it before paying
• the NemoAdministration group elects to admit a volunteer admin

It is not allowed to open shell accounts for friends and relatives unless they are seriously interested in joining!

In all cases, new accounts are to be reported to the NemoAdministration mailing list.

See also FooRules.

Technical stuff

1. give the user a shell account by running adduser
2. enable ssh access by adding the user to the AllowUsers section in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
3. restart sshd:
   ( kill -9 `cat /var/run/sshd.pid` ; /usr/sbin/sshd ) &!
4. add user to wheel if a potential member of FooAdmins
5. add user to /etc/ftpusers (block non-encrypted connections for shell accounts)
6. if not already agreed upon, make a new password and send by PGP or SMS (not in unencrypted email)
7. add the name on the list of NemoMembers in TWiki
8. add the name /www/www.nemo-project.org/twiki/data/.htpasswd, with the default password
9. add user to the foo-members (and possibly foo-admin) lists (or have Geir do it until I get a web form set up)
10. setup any domains as described in WebAdmin and MailAdmin

(Points 2-3 are paranoia measures that we plan to remove soon.)

-- GeirAalberg - 23 Feb 2002