Present
Department |
Advisor name |
---|---|
Applied Health Sciences (AHS) |
Lowell Williamson (secretary chair) |
Computer Science |
Steve Nickerson |
Environmental Studies (ES) |
Shawn Morgan |
ESAG |
Peter Routledge |
Math |
Jim Johnson |
Information System and Technology |
Ray White |
Tim Farrell | |
Engineering Computing |
Bruce Campbell |
Erick Engelk |
New Logon Page
- To be generated by PHP
- Created by OUs (blocking enabled)
- Fine-tuning to be done, eventually to work off of a server
- The importance of a 'consistent' interface across campus
Scratch (Account Creation Tool)
- Assumes that a unix account for the student does not exist
- Creates password (based on rules defined by faculty) then ssh's into the host and runs the acct command
- Then sends password to the AD
- AD accounts are already created via adman, possibility of having unix accounts batch created and just 'sitting' there
- Problems
- Creation of spam
- Users show up in the wrong group
- Bruce expressed the hope of having the "New Users" link work in all faculties
WNAG report to UCIST (Steph)
- Steph inquired re: topics to report on to UCIST & how previous presentations were developed
- Suggestions:
- Success of a peer group (Bruce)
- The success of 'on the edge' security (on the local pc)
- Flexibilty of NEXUS
Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Network services at startup are killed
- No warnings given by MS, deemed it to be virus-like activity
- Executables now give warnings
- IE security has now increased
- Issues with ArcGIS in ES were solved by deploying SP2
- Other faculties have not deployed yet
- iST SUS to deploy soon
- EC warned about VB6 and ngina.dll failing if distributed
Power Outage of September 12th
- Notification procedure to be adopted
- Shawn expressed concern on how faculties were notified, namely the timeliness
- Other faculties did not express concern
Other business
- Jim is having issues with MAIL and Mail and mail on N: drives due to Math's network storage device
- Podium PCs to be on 53 subnet throughout campus
- DNS registrations should be .nexus.uwaterloo.ca for NEXUS workstations, webservers excluded