Departing admin SOP

From time to time admins depart the project, this SOP checks any access they may no longer need.

Contact Information

Owner: Fedora Infrastructure Team
Contact: #fedora-admin, sysadmin-main
Location: Everywhere
Servers: all

Description

From time to time people with admin access to various parts of the project may leave the project or no longer wish to contribute. This SOP attempts to list the process for removing access they no longer need.

First, make sure that this SOP is needed. Verify the person has left the project and what areas they might wish to still contibute to.
Gather info: fas username, email address, knowledge of passwords.
Check the following areas with the following commands:
email address in ansible

Check: git grep email@address

Remove: git commit

koji admin

Check: koji list-permissions --user=username

Remove: koji revoke-permission permissionname username

wiki pages

Check: look for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Username

Remove: delete page, or modify with info they are no longer contributing.

packages

Check: Download https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/lists/bugzilla?tg_format=plain and grep

Remove: remove from cc, orphan packages or reassign.

fas account

Check: check username in fas

Remove: set user inactive

If there are scripts or files needed, save homedir of user.

passwords

Check: if departing admin knew sensitive passwords.

Remove: Change passwords.

root pw, management interfaces, etc

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