[CCIL-tech] RE: [CCIL-user] ldap

[Miles Nordin]

>>>>> "jw" == Jason Wood <jwood at iqnection.com> writes:

    jw> I would ask this guy if he wants to volunteer.

I volunteered once already actually around 2002, after one of the
directors sent out a broad call for technical help:

Subject: Message from CCIL's Executive Director: CCIL Crisis
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:55:45 -0400

Chuck Peters first told me that I couldn't be on the particular
technical mailing list which the managers had asked me to join because
nobody already knew me, and I guess at that time I hadn't already
``proven my 'l33tness'' by finding some exploit, and second that,
according to him, in fact no help was needed after all:

  ``the mail services I setup and maintain are as reliable or better
    than any place.  At a messaging ASP (Application Service Provider)
    I used to work for I did some tests on the reliability of some
    production mail systems and added CCIL's as another data point.
    Some of the other mail services were selling for as much as $15
    per user per month and CCIL's was consistently the most reliable.
    I have done more technical work for CCIL than anyone and it takes
    dedication, know how, experience and management, ...''.

Jackie Patti then created a separate 'ccil-tech' list and asked me to
join that instead.

Unfortunately I'm no longer a college student and don't have the time
to volunteer---it's enough just trying to keep my own free shell host
up-to-date!  Thanks for the suggestion, though, I think CCIL and the
shell services are a great resource/learningtool/community and really
wish I had more time to help.

    jw> This is probably why at some point we should disable shell
    jw> access to customers.

Either that, or stop keeping your nonprofit mailing list and other
sensitive information on the public machine.  If you were in
California instead of PA, at this time you might even be obligated to
send out some kind of costly paper identity-theft warning to every
member.  For me, I find it's hard enough just to keep ahead of the
standard Linux exploits discovered all the time, much less minor
site-specific issues like this one, but maybe easier to minimize the
potential damage.

Anyway if you decide to disable shell access, feel free to refer any
disappointed CCIL users to me, and I'll try to accomodate them on my
own community shellhost.

-- 
``One World, one Web, one Browser.'' -- Microsoft Corporation
``Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer.'' -- Adolf Hitler
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