Deficiencies

• many modules have dependency issues at boot time - why? Things seem to work anyway. Switching to 2.6 kernel seems to fix this, see IssuesWithKernel26.
• Need to automate updates!
• Need to autoupdate at boot-time.
• fix exim configs so that mail appears to be from @cs, not @hostname.cs. ExampleMail
• We badly need a working Java plugin. The following may be of use: http://www.mepis.org/node/view/2104 Or perhaps http://mozilla.weebeastie.net/java.shtml, http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/
• We may want to pre-install Flash plugins, but this could cause issues with debian packaging (because the .so/.xpt need to go to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins)

Wants

• first-boot script that configures various system settings based on admin input. It would also re-generate ssh hostkeys (perhaps just by calling dpkg-reconfigure ssh).
• script to programatically add a given userid to the various groups that a user must be in (audio, etc)
  • What about setting up /etc/security/group with entries such as:

    login; tty? ;*;Al0000-2400; audio, floppy, cdrom, video

  • Might also need to edit /etc/pam.d/login and uncomment the line:

    #auth       optional   pam_group.so

  • All this should be audited carefully. It works on my home machine, but it's well protected. (BenKorvemaker)
• A daemon that listens on some known port and returns version info of what image the system was built with.
  • tentatively called cscfid, port# 2723
  • need to setup firewall to accept on-campus requests only
• Use SCSI emulation to talk to the CDRW - this makes things like xcdroast and cdrecord much happier. But will this cause other problems?
• Is debsums installed? (Useful in detecting compromises, which we should expect to see sooner or later.) If it isn't - install it!