ISG News has posted a new item, 'New SSL and HTTPS certificates for many ISG
D-PHYS services'
In the past all HTTPS secured web sites hosted or provided by us used
certificates issued by ourselves. This caused unsettling warnings in most
browsers as the user had to manually add the root certificate of our
certification authority (CA) to his web browser.
To allow SSL certificates other than those signed by ourselves, namely
certificates automatically accepted by all browsers, but also community-backed
CACert certificates issued by ETH ID, we will change the configuration of our
web server zwoelfi this evening. This may cause some short interruptions to some
of the hosted sites, but should not be of longer duration.
Some of these web sites will get already new SSL certificates issued by
QuoVadis (accepted by nearly all browsers by default) this evening.
Other sites hosted on our web server zwoelfi will get CACert certificates in
the near future, too. Most web browsers on our managed workstations already
include the CACert root certificates. When deploying CACert certificates on our
web server, all browsers on our managed workstations should accept these
certificates. If not, please inform us.
In the case that you want to import the CACert root certificate into a browser
on your own machine or we forgot to import it globally in a browser on our
managed workstations, you can find a detailed article about how to import the
CACert root certificates into your web browser in the CACert Wiki.
You may view the latest post at
https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/09/30/new-ssl-and-https-certificates-for…
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Axel Beckert
beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch
ISG News has posted a new item, 'Plumpy down due hardware failure'
Please use fatboy.ethz.ch instead until the 17th October 2010 max. The machine
has 128 GB of memory and 4 Quadcores (AMD Opteron). You can also use /scratch
but please move your data away until 17th October 2010. Please note that you may
not use fatboy after this date.
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https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/09/30/plumpy-down-due-hardware-failure/
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sengun
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ISG News has posted a new item, 'Emergency reboot of Ubuntu workstations'
On Friday, September 17, at 22:00, we will have to extraordinarily reboot our
64-bit Ubuntu workstations in order to deal with a nasty security issue. We're
sorry for the short notice but we've been unpleasantly surprised by this just as
much as you have. If you're reading this in time, please save all your data and
log out if you can. Please note that also the terminal servers plimpy, plompy,
plempy and plumpy (yes I know..) are affected. Thank you.
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Christian Herzog
daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch