September 2010 - ISG-news - lists.phys.ethz.ch

[ISG News] New SSL and HTTPS certificates for many ISG D-PHYS services
by Axel Beckert 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

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… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Axel Beckert beckert(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Plumpy down due hardware failure
by sengun 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

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. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/09/30/plumpy-down-due-hardware-failure/ You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, sengun sengun(a)phys.ethz.ch

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[ISG News] Emergency reboot of Ubuntu workstations
by Christian Herzog 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

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. You may view the latest post at https://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/2010/09/17/emergency-reboot-of-ubuntu-worksta… You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted. Best regards, Christian Herzog daduke(a)phys.ethz.ch

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