RT server configuration - Revision history

Ghudson at 21:55, 17 July 2025

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Ghudson at 17:13, 13 April 2022

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Ghudson at 06:01, 13 April 2022

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Ghudson at 23:20, 12 April 2022

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Ghudson: /* User accounts */

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‎User accounts

Ghudson: /* Testing */

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‎Testing

Ghudson at 23:44, 1 June 2021

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Ghudson at 22:42, 1 June 2021

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Ghudson at 19:50, 1 June 2021

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Ghudson at 14:43, 26 May 2021

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 * handle RT_SiteConfig.pm permissions: yes
 * use dbconfig-common: no
 The data in RT is stored in a PostgreSQL database.  The postgresql Ubuntu package will install the recommended version of PostgreSQL for the current Ubuntu version.

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:13, 13 April 2022
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	==Git repository==		==Git repository==

−	The authoritative git repository lives in /git/krb5.git. If this repository needs to be reconstructed from another mirror of the repository, install the hooks from the githooks directory of krbdev-services, add the krbsnap private and public SSH key to the hooks directory, and run the git configuration commands from gitconvert/krb5-convert.sh in krbdev-services.	+	The authoritative krb5 git repository lives in /git/krb5.git. If this repository needs to be reconstructed from another mirror of the repository, install the hooks from the githooks directory of krbdev-services, add the krbsnap private and public SSH key to the hooks directory, and run the git configuration commands from gitconvert/krb5-convert.sh in krbdev-services.
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		+	The authoritative krbdev-services repository lives in /git/krbdev-services.git.

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 The server host acts as an authoritative name server for the kerberos.org zone, so the bind9 package must be installed.
 In sum, the following packages must be installed on the RT server:
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   apache2
   bind9
   libapache2-mod-fcgid
   libsendmail-pmilter-perl
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     groupadd krbwrite
     useradd -u 3622 -s /usr/bin/git-shell -G krbwrite ghudson
     mkdir /home/ghudson
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 If the IP address if kerberos.org needs to be changed, the glue record at hover.com must be updated. In the current Hover UI, glue records can be found under "advanced". The transfer lock on the domain must be temporarily disabled (via the Overview screen) to update glue records.

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   useradd -r -m -g rt -d /var/rt2 -s /bin/false rt
-Some of the above accounts may be created by ops during provisioning.  /var/rt2 and /var/rt2/.ssh must be owned by rtcvs or sshd will reject logins as rtcvs from drugstore.
+Some of the above accounts may be created by ops during provisioning.  /var/rt2 and /var/rt2/.ssh must be owned by rtcvs or sshd will reject logins as rtcvs.
 For the authoritative repository, create a group named "krbwrite" and an account for each committer, with a root-owned home directory and git-shell configuration:

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 Some of the above accounts may be created by ops during provisioning.  /var/rt2 and /var/rt2/.ssh must be owned by rtcvs or sshd will reject logins as rtcvs from drugstore.
 Create /var/rt2/bin and copy in the following scripts from the krbdev-services repository:
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 The scripts and directory should be mode 755 and owned by user rt and group rt.
-/var/rt2 should contain an empty .k5login file, managed by ops.  It should contain a .ssh/authorized_keys file, managed by ops, containing the krbsnap key from /git/krb5.git/hooks/krbsnap_rsa_key.pub on drugstore.mit.edu.
+/var/rt2 should contain an empty .k5login file, managed by ops.  It should contain a .ssh/authorized_keys file, managed by ops, containing the krbsnap key from hooks/krbsnap_rsa_key.pub in the authoritative repository.
 Create /var/psqlbackups (owned by root).
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 * The empty /var/rt2/.k5login file is managed by ops.
 * The /var/rt2/.ssh/authorized_keys file is managed by ops.
-* On drugstore.mit.edu, the krb5 git repository rt-ssh-cmd config value references the rtcvs user and /var/rt2/bin/rt-cvsgate.
+* The authoritative krb5 git repository rt-ssh-cmd config value references the rtcvs user and /var/rt2/bin/rt-cvsgate.
-* On drugstore.mit.edu, the krb5 git repository hooks/krb5-rt-id script references the rtcvs user and /var/rt2/bin/rt-reserve-ticket.  This script comes from the krbdev-services repository's githooks/krb5-rt-id.
+* The authoritative krb5 git repository hooks/krb5-rt-id script references the rtcvs user and /var/rt2/bin/rt-reserve-ticket.  This script comes from the krbdev-services repository's githooks/krb5-rt-id.
 * Some of the same references are present in the krbdev-services repository, but they aren't used.

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 To test rt-cvsgate, create a test message in /tmp/testmsg like so:
   ticket: new
   subject: rt-cvsgate test
   tags: pullup

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   test commit message
-As rt-cvsgate, run "/var/rt2/bin/rt-cvsgate ''username'' < /tmp/testmsg", where ''username'' is an authorized user.
+As rtcvs, run "/var/rt2/bin/rt-cvsgate ''username'' < /tmp/testmsg", where ''username'' is an authorized user.
 Undo the temporary changes and restore the database from a dump file.

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 * group rt
 * user rtcvs: primary group rt, homedir /var/rt2, shell /bin/sh
 These accounts could be created with:
   groupadd -r rt
   useradd -r -g rt -d /var/rt2 rtcvs
-Some of the above accounts may be created by ops during provisioning.
+Some of the above accounts may be created by ops during provisioning.  /var/rt2 and /var/rt2/.ssh must be owned by rtcvs or sshd will reject logins as rtcvs from drugstore.
 Create /var/rt2/bin and copy in the following scripts from the krbdev-services repository:

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 Run "newaliases" and "postfix reload" to pick up the changed configuration.
-Make sure rt@kerborg-prod-app-1.mit.edu is authorized as a non-member sender at https://mailman.mit.edu:444/mailman/admin/krb5-bugs/privacy/sender .
+Make sure rt@kerborg-prod-app-1.mit.edu and rt-comment@kerborg-prod-app-1.mit.edu are authorized as non-member senders at https://mailman.mit.edu:444/mailman/admin/krb5-bugs/privacy/sender .
 ==Apache httpd configuration==