The systems administrator position is probably the position requiring the largest amount of "ad-hoc" knowledge. In particular, there are many decisions related to how the CSC computers are run which may not be so obvious from looking at the systems themselves. For this reason, as sysadmin of the CSC it is of vital importance that you not only read this document, but keep it up to date as well. According to the constitution, the following are the duties of the sysadmin: to operate any and all equipment in the possession of the Club; to maintain and upgrade the software on equipment that is operated by the Club; to facilitate the use of equipment that is operated by the Club. It has become quite regular for the CSC to get new equipment each term. The sysadmin is responsible for ensuring this gear gets installed and works as intended. You can try getting access to the machine room from MFCF/CSCF. You probably want to talk to Dave Gawley, dlgawley@cs.uwaterloo.ca. He's been really friendly to the CSC in the past and is a cool guy in general. To alter users and groups please use the cpu command. cpu is setup to use ldap to change any given user or group. To change a users group use cpu usermod -G current,groups,new,groups man cpu-ldap cpu groupadd cvs-ceo This procedure is for users that were expired at the end of spring 2003. login as root on peri (you probably can't do this, but might have access to someone who can..) Unexpire the account in the ldap database peri# echo username |/root/dead-accounts/unexpire.pl If this worked, it should spit back the username. Extract home directory onto peri extract home directory onto peri mount "Expired /u" on sugar (or wherever) copy /$mntpoint/username.tar to somewhere accessible to root@peri Note: the home directories are not compressed on the CD, remember this when 'cp' is telling you 'username.tgz: no such file or directory'. tar (below) doesn't need 'z' either. peri# tar xf /path/to/username.tar -C /u Restore mail onto peri peri$ grep username /root/dead-accounts/unreadable-accounts if the username is there, the mbox is on "Expired mail 2" otherwise, the mbox is on "Expired mail" mount appropriate CD cd to a temporary directory (*not* /var/mail) extract mbox from archive -- on the "Expired mail", this will take a while -- just hit ^C after you see the username printed and you're happy tar has moved on to other files. (I say 'sugar', but really any machine with a CD drive...) sugar$ tar jxvf /$mntpoint/mail_tar.bz2 username (hmm.. I don't remember what the tarball is called on Expired2, maybe the same thing, maybe different, but I'm pretty sure this is the filename for Expired1. Besides, there's only one file on the CD, so just tab-complete the damn thing :) (probably scp username root@peri: or something here) restore mail, appending any mail received since backup was made, and preserving permissions on the file. (Note: this doesn't take into account locks -- i.e., stuff might get screwed if the account receives mail while one of the below cats is running. A message received between the cats simply gets lost.) The following commands should also work from another machine if the account was on "Expired mail" (i.e., was not in ``unreadable-accounts''). But doing it on peri will always peri#cat /var/mail/username >>username peri#cat username >/var/mail/username