Broken/YSTV Computing

Computing Documentation

This is an attempt to document the Computing part of YSTV.

General Docs

Overview - Computing Overview. This details generally what's going on with ystv computers.

Station Servers - Documentation on the ever increasing number of servers in YSTV

Station PCs - Documentation on each of the Desktop PCs used in YSTV

The Network - Documentation on how the network in YSTV is currently setup

FaffoCue - our new shiny autocue

P169 PC - PC to remotely control a P169

Authentication

Authentcaition is performed using an OpenLDAP database as the main backend. This and a lot of other possibly complicated things come together to give a fairly reasonable Single Sign On(SSO) system.

For a rough idea of how everything fits together, take a look at the Overview above.

Details on the specific configuration of various services can be found in these pages:

LDAP Auth Configuration - Main backend

PAM Auth Configuration - UNIX Auth settings (for new unix machines)

Samba Configuration - Samba config. Auth for Windows machines and shares

Postfix Configuration - Looks to LDAP for mail aliases for users

Dovecot Configuration - Authenticates IMAP logins via LDAP