# Debian System Administrators

The Debian System Debian Administration Team (DSA) is the team that
keeps debian.org's infrastructure going. This is the internal team wiki,
which as some howto mainly targeted for the team members.  

To contact us, mail debian-admin@lists.debian.org.

To request installation of build dependencies please
[mail us following some guidelines](doc/install-req).
For other things you can also create a ticket in [RT](http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA/RTUsage).

For a list of servers check
[ud-ldap](https://db.debian.org/machines.cgi), or
[munin](http://munin.debian.org/), or
[nagios](https://nagios.debian.org/)
(try dsa-guest, no password).

## source repositories

Copies of our VCS repositories are available on
[alioth](http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?s=mirror%2Fdsa-). If you want to
prepare patches for any of our GIT repositories please use git format-patch and
mail them to debian-admin@lists.debian.org or attach them to the according RT
ticket.

## documentation

* [[doc/wiki]]: How to contribute to the dsa.d.o wiki
* [RT Usage](http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DSA/RTUsage) - offsite
* [DSA usertagged bugreports](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=debian-admin@lists.debian.org) - offsite
* [[user/sudo]]: How to set sudo passwords.
* [[doc/install-req]]: guidelines to request package installation in chroots
* [dchroot documentation](http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/resources.html#dchroot): How dchroot can be used on porter machines
* [[doc/guest-account]]: guest account access to porter machines
* [[doc/subdomains]]: facilities offered to teams with a dedicated subdomain

## Internal documentation

* [[howto/dns]]
* [[howto/new-machine]]: How to setup and integrate machines into debian.org's infrastructure.
* [[howto/decomission]]: How to decomission a machine
* [[howto/puppet-setup]]
* [[howto/upgrade-to-lenny]]
* [[howto/upgrade-to-squeeze]]
* [[howto/upgrade-to-wheezy]]
* [[howto/install-ganeti]]: ganeti related documentation
* [[howto/ilo-https]]
* [[howto/backup]]
* [[howto/exim-ca]]
* [[howto/iscsi]]: How to setup a new iscsi initiator
* [[howto/export-iscsi]]: How to export new iscsi LUNs
* [[howto/install-kvm]]: How to setup a new kvm domain without going through d-i etc.
* [[howto/postgres]]: Random postgres stuff
* [[howto/add-guest]]: How to add guests to ud-ldap
* [[howto/add-account]]: How to add accounts to ud-ldap / upgrade guest accounts
* [[howto/swarm-kernel]]: How to build kernels for our swarm boxes
* [[howto/drac-reset]]: How to beat the radacm rootk^Wbinary only software.
* [[howto/dchroot]]: porter chroots setup
* [[howto/new-dpl]]: What to do when we have a new DPL

## ports

* [[ports/kfreebsd]]: Open issues with the kFreeBSD ports
* [[ports/porter-chroots-install]]: some info how to install stuff in porter chroots

## misc

* [[hardware-wishlist]]
* [[OID-Assignments|iana]]
* [[poneys]]

## DSA blog

* [[dsablog]] - Team blog of the DSA team