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Admin notes on embeddedmoose.com

Adding users!

sudo adduser --disabled-password --gecos "$fullname" $user
sudo adduser $user group1 group2 group3

Groups

Setting up lighttp

To get gitweb to work, you need to enable cgi:

sudo lighty-enable-mod alias
sudo lighty-enable-mod cgi
sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload

Added to lightpd.conf:

alias.url = ( "/git" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi" )

Using backports

Don't forget to add debian-backports-keyring.

apt-get -t etch-backports install "package"