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It has a Discuss archive – you can view it at https://diswww.mit.edu/pergamon.mit.edu/squares-db-errorlog/ (requires certs). View access is occasionally synced to the tech-squraessquares-officers list by running:
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Currently, squaresdb.mit.edu is the same VM as tech-squares-photos.mit.edu. As of September 2024, the following people have admin access: admin:x:115:kchen,vboyce,adehnert,lhuhmann . If something goes wrong with SquaresDB and Alex isn't available to fix it, somebody with admin access to the server has the technical permissions needed to deploy code fixes or gain superuser access within SquaresDB. (Naturally, this should be avoided. Possession of technical permissions doesn't mean they have familiarity with the code such that this will be a smooth process.)
To give somebody shell access, use "adduser $NEWUSER --disabled-password" to create an account for ssh pubkey access, and add a public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. If they need to administer the server, either set a password and add them to the "admin" group so they can use sudo, or add them to root's authorized_keys.
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