FAS no Longer developed or maintained

The Fedora Account System (FAS2) is no longer developed or maintained. It was replaced in production in March 2021 by Fedora Accounts. (which is actually comprised of many things, including noggin, freeipa-fas, and fasjson).

FAS2 was launched in 2008, and when it was decomissioned in 2021, the final version used in production was FAS2 0.14.1 and looked like the following screenshot:

FAS3

Around 2017, development was proceeding on FAS3, a complete re-write of FAS2. Ultimately, this project was not completed, and never reached production. This code is still availble in the FAS3 branch: https://github.com/fedora-infra/fas/tree/FAS3

Fedora Account System

Authors

Ricky Zhou Mike McGrath Toshio Kuratomi Yaakov Nemoy Patrick Uiterwijk

Contact

infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org

Date

Wed, 26 March, 2008

For FAS version

0.8.x

The Fedora Account System holds information on Fedora Contributors to give them access to the wonderful things that Fedora has.

This is a TurboGears project. It can be started by running the start-fas script.

Upgrading

0.8.13 => 0.8.14

When upgrading to 0.8.14 the database schema changed slightly, and new configuration options got introduced, for the security questions system. The people table gets two new columns, for the question and answers, and the configuration gets a new option to specify the key used to encrypt the security answer. Apply the schema update like this:

sudo -u postgres psql fas2 < updates/fas2-0.8.13_to_0.8.14.sql

Also, the new key_securityquestion configuration parameter should be set to the id of the key used to encrypt the answer to the security question.

Also, you should not forget to set deployment_type to the type of deployment of this installation.

0.8.7 => 0.8.8

We still haven't worked out using migrate scripts on our database servers so the changes here need to be done like this:

sudo -u postgres psql fas2 < updates/fas2-0.8.7_to_0.8.8.sql

0.8.5 => future

From 0.8.5 and onward we will be using SQLAlchemy Migrate to handle database upgrades. To use it, it assumes you have already installed fas2.sql into your posgresql database. The instructions for installing SQLAlchemy-Migrate on top can be found below in the installation instructions.

sqlalchemy-migrate will need to be installed. To do so, run:

sudo yum -y install python-migrate

(Since I don't trust this yet, the latest change will need to add: + invite_only BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE, to the groups table. There is a migrate script checked in. Need to verify that it works and that we'll do that.)

0.8.4 => 0.8.5

When upgrading to 0.8.5 the database schema changed slightly. The configs table now has a unique constraint to prevent duplicates being entered. Use this to update your existing schema:

sudo -u postgres psql fas2 < updates/fas2-0.8.4_to_0.8.5.sql

0.8.3 => 0.8.4

When upgrading from 0.8.3 to 0.8.4 there are some new database changes:

groups.url

URL where others can look for information about the group

groups.mailing_list

Specify a mailing list address that others can use to contact the group

groups.mailing_list_url

A url where others can look at list archives and sign up

groups.irc_network

IRC network on which the IRC channel is

groups.irc_channel

IRC channel where communication with the group occurs

people.country_code

Two digit country code for where the user is from

user_group

View that allows mod_auth_pgsql to work with the db

session

Table for doing OpenID sessions.

You can add these to your database by running the sql commands in updates/fas2-0.8.3_to_0.8.4.sql like this:

sudo -u postgres psql fas2 < updates/fas2-0.8.3_to_0.8.4.sql

The country code functionality also makes use of python-GeoIP. This should be installed as a dependency if you use the fas rpms. Otherwise you need to install that manually:

sudo yum -y install python-GeoIP