It is my firm belief that I've done other stuff at this school. As I think of things they'll be added below.

My projects at Reed include:

• Building a better print-billing system.
• A web-based print queue for unauthenticated print jobs.
• Porting the Blitzmail Bulletins system (a threaded piece of software which has historically run on DEC Alphas and NeXT machines) to Linux. As of October 2005, this system is set to be retired in the next month.
• REGINA A Windows XP GINA replacement designed to offer temporary user account creation based on authentication data from a Kerberos 5 KDC. In production since 2002.
• Kerberized LPR printing from MacOS X. Follow the link for information regarding drivers for the OS X Print Center which enable direct printing to Kerberized LPRng print servers.
• netatalk: Reed is a Macintosh campus. The college runs a number of netatalk servers to provide file and print services. It has been my responsiblity in the past to make sure that the software functions appropriately in our environment. My contributions to the netatalk project include administrative group support (admingroup), some work on the Kerberos4 uam (thanks to Wes Craig at Umich), some minor enhancements to printing, and miscelaneous bug fixes. I wrote a netatalk UAM which is compatible with the Kerberos 5 authentication in Apple's MacOS X 10.2
• One of the major barriers to adopting MacOS X in our computer labs is a serious incompatibility between AppleTalk under Classic and the way REED bills students for printing. Continued...
• Ben Poliakoff and I wrote the papif.sh script we use for sending jobs to appletalk printers (it replaces papif from CAP) and the lwrename.sh script we use to rename our printers to hide them from the chooser.
• Kerberos: A centralized authentication system. It's been discussed for the past several years but only recently has any real testing been done. At some point I'll document my experiences, but presently I'm just going to say that I've shown (to my own satisfaction) that Reed can actually be kerberized.
• A module to interface qmail with our Oracle database to provide email forwarding to Reed Alumni. There are versions for both Oracle 7 and Oracle 8. We use this dot-qmail file in our alias directory.
• A web client for Blitzmail (written in some awful looking Perl). There is no support for PASE password encryption. If you find it useful, please drop me a note. As far as I know, nobody is working on this anymore. I believe that a perl module providing more advanced DND support is now part of the dnd distribution.
• DND user lookup support for CAP. The code is available and has undergone light testing. Reed has been moving away from CAP since I began studying here and as a result I don't work on this anymore. Instructions. Patch.
• A DNEWS authentication module to check users against an nis passwd map.
• Two scripts that we use at Reed as part of our printing system. Mind you I didn't write them, I've just updated them to work with our current printing system. Continuously poll the print queues (useful on a terminal where users can check the status of their jobs) and text menu based interface to lpc and lprm.
• General system administration. I've been helping maintain most of the Unix servers on campus since the end of August, 1997. These systems have included Compaq Tru64 Unix (aka Digital Unix aka OSF/1) releases 3.x and 4.x, Solaris 2.5x and later, Debian and RedHat Linux (various releases), and OpenBSD.

Source code to anything I've written is generally available upon request, although some requests are a little more involved than others.

In addition to the above, I also worked several hours a week as a T-Watcher. The job includes providing basic user support for the three computer labs in the Library (at Reed we call them "IRC's") and one lab in the Psychology building. A more resumé friendly title is currently in the works.

This page was last updated 18 October, 2005