Fedora CA Project
by Dennis Gilmore
We have come to the realisation that this has to be done sooner rather than
later. So i'm putting out a call for help and for feedback.
We need to revamp the CA infrastructure used in Fedora.
This is where Id like to see us go.
Publish a Certificate Revocation list so that all apps can check for revoked
certs
Have users able to revoke their own cert
Have user certs be revoked when they request a new cert
Have admins able to create/revoke certs
Their are 2 types of certificates currently handled by 2 CA's I really want
to use a single CA for all:
Type 1) user certs. used for plague/koji/cvs upload access. there is work
underway to use these for other fedora web based apps also.
Type 2) Builders, kojira, internal service authentication.
Products to be evaluated:
http://pki.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PKI_Main_Page
https://www.openca.org/
http://ejbca.sourceforge.net/
Something custom
FAS will need modification to work with the new framework. I also want to
allow fedora-packager-setup to grab the cert directly rather than having the
user manually do it. probably with a flag for when to get a new cert.
All users will need to get new user certs when we make the change. as well as
koji hub, all builders, koji garbage collection, bodhi, It would also be a
good time to deploy ssl auth for other apps.
We have a ticket https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/466
Please make suggestions for other apps we could use, also ideas for making
the workflow better.
So this is a brief overview of whats needed. Im going to open the floor for a
week for open discussion on how we should best do this.
Dennis
15 years, 7 months
xen7 networking issue?
by Toshio Kuratomi
Someone just reported that the wiki was down and I thought xen7 might
have crashed again. when I tried to ssh to it my connection timed out.
ping xen7 was fine. I serial consoled in and then immediately tried
to ssh to xen7 again. it worked. uptime showed that xen7 has been up
since this morning and the app servers are all running, etc. There are
no iscsi errors in /var/log/messages.
Is there a possibility that we're experiencing some sort of networking
issue with xen7? Maybe that issue is exacerbating the iscsi bug that
causes our xen hosts to crash?
-Toshio
15 years, 8 months
sub-optimal torrent for F9 Snapshot 1
by John Poelstra
I'm finding trying to get Friday's snapshot of Fedora 9 to be very
sub-optimal... 62 hours estimated to go after already timing out once.
I've got two peers and one seed :( I'll probably get it by time the
next snapshot is ready :)
Is this happening to others?
Is this really a viable way to put out *weekly* snapshots?
Is hosting jigdo templates a possibility? In my situation it would work
well because I mirror the rawhide trees locally--yes I realize this begs
the question of why I need the snapshot if I already mirror rawhide, but
I'm curious if it fails to install for me just as rawhide has for the
past three days.
John
15 years, 8 months
GSoC: Transifex-committer
by Christos Trochalakis
Hello,
I am applying to Google Summer of Code for the Fedora Project. I am
interested in writing a backend committer for Transifex
(#tx-committer). Our plan is to seperate the commit proccess and have
transifex interact with various remote committers through json or
xml-rpc.
You can find a more detailed description in the wiki page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ChristosTrochalakis/GSoC/Tx-Committer
Any ideas/questions are more than wellcome :)
-Christos
15 years, 8 months
Away for a few days
by Mike McGrath
Hey everyone. I'll be gone from Friday until Monday (back on Tuesday) on
vacation... So no ignoring nagios emails :)
-Mike
15 years, 8 months
download.fp.o -> proxies and redirects
by Matt Domsch
The last step in completing the download.fp.o move onto the proxy
servers is to remove the forced client redirect, and instead use a
local rewrite rule and proxy pass, just as mirrors.fp.o/mirrorlist
uses.
I think this is right, but want extra eyeballs. Here's the diff.
Index: rewrite.conf
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/puppet/configs/web/download.fedoraproject.org/rewrite.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 rewrite.conf
--- rewrite.conf 19 Nov 2007 23:06:40 -0000 1.6
+++ rewrite.conf 26 Mar 2008 20:52:53 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
-RewriteEngine on
-RewriteRule ^/(.+)$ http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=$1&redirect=1 [R=307,L]
-RewriteRule ^/$ http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/&redire... [R=307,L]
+<Location /mirrorlist>
+RequestHeader set CP-Location /mirrormanager
+</Location>
+
+RewriteEngine On
+RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://mirrorsCluster//mirrorlist?path=$1&redirect=1 [P]
+RewriteRule ^/$ balancer://mirrorsCluster//mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/&redirect=1 [P]
+
+
+ProxyPassReverse / http://app3.fedora.phx.redhat.com
+ProxyPassReverse / http://app4.fedora.phx.redhat.com
+ProxyPassReverse / http://app5.vpn.fedoraproject.org
and for reference, here's what mirrors.fp.o has this below. The interesting rule is the second rewriterule.
<Location /mirrorlist>
RequestHeader set CP-Location /mirrormanager
</Location>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/publiclist(.*) balancer://mirrorsCluster//mirrorlists/publiclist/$1 [P]
RewriteRule ^/mirrorlist(.*) balancer://mirrorsCluster//mirrorlist$1 [P]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://mirrorsCluster//mirrorlists/$1 [P]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) balancer://mirrorsCluster/$1 [P]
ProxyPassReverse / http://app3.fedora.phx.redhat.com
ProxyPassReverse / http://app4.fedora.phx.redhat.com
ProxyPassReverse / http://app5.vpn.fedoraproject.org
--
Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
15 years, 8 months
introduction all around
by john
Hey everyone,
My name is John Roman, and I suppose this is my introduction. I hope to
be considered for membership in the infrastructure group but of couse,
I'm not yet familiar enough with it. im lurking the #fedora-admin
channel for now as nimbius. occasionally ill browse the ticketing
system to get an idea of what infrastructure at Fedora does.
I'm a 26 year old infrastructure engineer by trade with 3 years
experience in Red Hat based systems. Ive worked one small shop, and one
large shop. I've been a Fedora user since its inception and its taught
me quite a bit about linux. Some of the things I enjoy doing most with
fedora are high-availability clustering, building fiber channel LVM,
and samba replacements for domain controllers.
for reference, I am an active contributor in the sambawiki on active
directory/samba integration.
I want to join the infrastructure group because it will give me a chance
to help the project, as well as learn more about an operating system
that has been with me in one form or another for around 8 years.
15 years, 8 months
app2 rebuild
by Mike McGrath
hey guys, I'm going to rebuild app2 and stick some of our tg apps on
there. Seth brought up an excellent point earlier in that our tg apps
aren't really using any x86_64 code but the python objects they create can
be 2-3x larger in memory. Since most of our performance issues with these
apps is memory bloat (and ultimate swap) I'm going to build it as an i686
box. After a week or two we can compare memory footprints. I'd really
like to get some benchmarks done to have some actual data to compare to
but I just don't think I'll have time for it (if someone else wants to
though I'd greatly appreciate it)
I'm going to add app2 to the farm with some of our apps like smolt,
mirrormanager and pkgdb. Then compare memory footprints after a week or
so.
Also, the last thing blocking us from app3 is getting mediawiki in EL-5 or
in the infrastructure repo. If someone wants to get together and verify
that the newest mediawiki in Fedora will build in EL-5 I'd greatly
appreciate it (don't forget about the deps).
-Mike
15 years, 8 months
CVS storage use
by Paul W. Frields
Matt Domsch mentioned the other day to the Board that CVS file system
usage is at ~77%. How does that trend over time, and does that include
the lookaside cache? Matt may have been working on answering these
questions already, I just thought they would be of interest in a public
thread.`
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Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
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15 years, 8 months