[CALUG] CapBUG February Meeting - SysAdmin Games

[Jason Dixon]

Our next meeting is scheduled for this Tuesday, February 26 at Raba  
Technologies in Columbia, MD.  This month we will be hosting our first  
ever "SysAdmin Games" workshop.

The main focus of this meeting is to have fun learning more about what  
we already enjoy, UNIX systems 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  
machines for each of the team images.  Each virtual system will have  
local network access only, with a dedicated sandbox system for  
external access (see "life-line" information below) and testing  
purposes.

We will need an additional laptop for each team, for managing each  
respective virtual machine (via VMware web client or SSH).  I think we  
will have this covered easily, but if you have a laptop you want to  
bring in for your team, please do.  Here are the details, let me know  
if you have any questions.  More information available at http://capbug.org/ 
.


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.
	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


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