LCSR User Group Notes: October 21, 2004

Attending: Rick Crispin, Charles McGrew, Doug Motto, Thu Nguyen, Pravin Shankar, Rick Thomas, Rob Tuck, Don Smith, Don Watrous,

Arbitrary packets
- needed for CS352 and CS552 - about 100 students per semester
- each machine could handle 10 users
- enables design/deployment of new protocols
- security - is a problem
  - interception all packets to a machine is possible
  - user mode linux might be a solution
  - limiting to one virtual network would provide some protection
  - could be done on dedicated machines as they are retired
- prototype project makes sense
/filer/tmp mounting points
- where should it be mounted? (research ...)
- samba mount is possible - desirable?
- mounting on /fac is most useful
- mounting on cereal is least useful
- should we only mount on machines LCSR administers due to
  - security
  - abuse
  - performance
- it needs a to be better described and advertised
- the self-policing aspect of the resources needs to be explicit
encrypted CD archives
- should public private key encryption be used
  - validation is impossible without the private key
  - if the private key is forgotten all data is lost
  - only users can read the data
- users could keep sensitive files encrypted in their directories
- further discussion tabled to next meeting