[Labs-l] [Tools] New bastion at tools-login.wmflabs.org

[Purodha Blissenbach]

> and a shell should automatically terminate on labs,
> if it's been inactive for 30 mintues.

No. I use mosh to connect to Labs. depening on circumstances such as
commuting, pause times, and others, the inactiity time may well exceed
half an hour.

Make it unlimited.

Purodha


On 04.04.2016 21:54, Maximilian Doerr wrote:
> I think the primary problem is that users keep running bot scripts on
> it, when they shouldn't, and I think the easy solution would be to
> implement a killer, which kills all scripts started on tools-login
> when the user logs off, or if it has been running for more than 15
> minutes.  It's okay to run it on -login quickly to understand how it
> will interact with the labs environment, but it's not supposed to be
> permanent.  Another seemingly recurring problem, and I'm guilty of it
> too is when users pointlessly leave shell sessions open.   That's 
> also
> a security risk, and a shell should automatically terminate on labs,
> if it's been inactive for 30 mintues.
>
> Just my thoughts.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Labs-l [mailto:labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
> Yuvi Panda
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2016 3:43 PM
> To: Wikimedia Labs <labs-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Labs-l] [Tools] New bastion at tools-login.wmflabs.org
>
> Hello!
>
> I've moved tools-login.wmflabs.org to a new bastion host with twice
> the RAM and CPU of the old one. This should hopefully provide a 
> better
> bandaid against it getting overloaded up. More discussion about a
> longer term solution at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131541
>
> You can find new fingerprints at
> 
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:SSH_Fingerprints/tools-login.wmflabs.org
>
> Apologies for the interruption! I'll leave the old bastion up at
> tools-bastion-05.eqiad.wmflabs.
>
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