[CALUG] CapBUG October Meeting - SysAdmin Games

[Jason Dixon]

For Linux users with a competitive streak...  :)
http://capbug.org/

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Our next meeting is scheduled for this Tuesday, October 30 at Raba
Technologies in Columbia, MD.  This month we will be hosting our
first ever "SysAdmin Games" workshop.  As usual, the meeting will
wind up at Nottingham's afterwards for beers and food.

The main focus of this meeting is to have fun learning more about
what we already enjoy... BSD administration.  But since this might
be a recurring event, our official theme this month will be "Secure
Webservers".  We will be utilizing a VMware Server running virtual
to bring in for your team, please do.  Here are the details, let me
know if you have any questions.

P.S.  Yes, I will be serving as the BOFH.  :)


bofh$ cat sysadmin_games.txt

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# Theme
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* Secure Webservers

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# Goals
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* Install a BSD operating system and dependencies as needed
* Configure networking
* Configure the host firewall
* Configure a webserver with a self-signed certificate
* Configure start-up services

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# Rules
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* Each team will have a "mentor".  This individual will act as a team leader and "life-line" resource for the competition.
* Each team will have a series of 3 "life-lines".  The life-line period is a maximum of 10 minutes.
    1) Mentor = A team may request the assistance of the mentor from another team.
    If the question is satisfied (to be determined by the BOFH), the mentor's team
    receives a 10-point bonus.  If the question is *not* satisfied, the mentor's
    team receives a 10-point debit.  An assisting mentor may *not* utilize their own
    life-lines for the purpose of assisting another team.
    2) Google = A team may utilize any internet resource for research on their project.
    They are only allowed to use public http[s] websites.  No proxy to non-http[s] 
    services (IRC, chat, etc) are allowed.
    3) Phone = A team member may call one individual for assistance.  Competition
    participants are excluded from being an assisting party.
* Each team will use a different BSD operating system selection.  This will be determined by a series of trivial questions at the beginning of the competition.  The team to correctly answer a question gets to select the BSD used by *their choice* of one of the other remaining teams.  This will continue until all teams have been assigned an operating system. Example: Team A wins the first question.  They choose DragonflyBSD for Team C.  Team B wins the second question. They choose NetBSD for Team A.  Team C wins the final question.  They choose MirBSD for Team A (poor bastards).
* Each team will have a maximum of one hour to complete the allotted tasks.
* Each team will have 10 minutes to present their final results to the BOFH for points redemption.

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# Awards
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* The winning team gets a free round of beer at Nottingham's.

# EOF


-- 
Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net