20.04 update notice

news/pages/030_ubuntu20.04.md

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+published: true
+date: august 4 2020
+title: "ubuntu 20.04 upgrades"
+author: ben
+---
+
+i've been preparing a large upgrade for tilde.team to ubuntu 20.04 focal fossa.
+
+the new vm has a fresh install and will help to address some of the long-standing
+issues that i've been wanting to fix for quite some time now
+
+---
+
+- dedicated /home disk - we haven't had any actual issues here luckily
+  but it will prevent any issues where a user accidentally fills a disk
+  and chokes out the rest of the system
+
+- fixing uids - at some point, the spamassassin package created a system
+  user account with a uid > 1000 which threw off the user numbering into
+  the 5000 range. i've renumbered user accounts on the new vm to remove
+  that large jump
+
+- dedicated service accounts - each service now has its own account in `/srv`
+  which is importantly outside of `/home` and is not a single user running multiple
+  services as it was configured previously
+
+the ip address is the same and everything should be as you left it. please let me
+know on irc or shoot an email if something is amiss.
+
+i have an ongoing list [here](/~ben/todo.txt) that i will update as i get things
+back up and running.
+
+another important note: python is now 3.8 by default and you will need to
+explicitly call python2. all local site- and dist-packages have been removed
+since they were targeting 3.6. you will need to recreate any virtual envs
+that you may have.
+
+cheers,
+~ben