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Debian System Administrators
The Debian System Administration (DSA) team is responsible for
Debian's infrastructure. This wiki is focused on system administration
documentation, primarily in the form of HOWTOs, for users and administrators.
To contact us, mail debian-admin@lists.debian.org.
For a list of servers check
ud-ldap
, or
munin
, or
nagios
(try dsa-guest, dsa-guest).
source repositories
Copies of our repositories are available on
salsa
. If you want to
prepare patches for any of our repositories please use git format-patch and
mail them to debian-admin@lists.debian.org or attach them to the corresponding RT
ticket.
documentation for end users or services owners
how to use RT
how to setup SSH
how to set sudo passwords
how to request guest access to porter machines
how to use schroot on porter machines
how to manage service subdomains
firewalling
sending mails
documentation for contributors
how to contribute to this wiki
list of DSA usertagged bugreports
documentation for team members
tips for new and existing members
how to update dns resource records
how to add a new machine
decommission
: how to decommission a machine
puppet-setup
upgrade-to-trixie
upgrade-to-bookworm
install-ganeti
: ganeti related documentation
backup
bacula-hints
exim-ca
install-kvm
: how to setup a new kvm domain without going through d-i etc.
postgres
: Random postgres stuff
postgres-backup
: Less random postgres stuff
add-guest
: how to add a guest to ud-ldap
add-account
: how to add an account to ud-ldap (also: how to upgrade a guest)
lock-account
: how to lock an account in ud-ldap
new-dpl
: What to do when we have a new DPL
new-dsa
: What to do when we have a new DSA member
static-mirroring
: Static mirroring fu
lvm
: LVM related tips
move-a-vm
: how to move a VM to another ganeti cluster
manage-metapackages
: how to update our metapackages
time
: system time management
ports
hardware-requirements
: Hardware requirements for porter boxes
misc
hardware-wishlist
OID-Assignments
poneys
archive
iscsi
: how to setup a new iscsi initiator
export-iscsi
: how to export new iscsi LUNs
swarm-kernel
: how to build kernels for our swarm boxes
drac-reset
: how to beat the radacm rootk^Wbinary only software.
ilo-https
upgrade-to-lenny
upgrade-to-squeeze
upgrade-to-wheezy
upgrade-to-jessie
upgrade-to-stretch
upgrade-to-buster
upgrade-to-bullseye
Pontifications
2013-07-12 DSA Meeting Minutes
2013-06-13 DSA Team Sprint Report
DSA blog
dsablog
- Team blog of the DSA team
To report a problem with the web site, e-mail
debian-admin@lists.debian.org
. For other contact information, see the Debian
contact page
Last Modified:
2026-04-06
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