January 2011 - Core-students - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

Where's Bryant
by Bryant Fortson 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Car is ready, shop opens at 8:30. I should be in around 9:30am. -- Bryant Fortson MCS Systems

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Where's hunter
by Hunter Matthews 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

I have a stuff up nose and a sore throat. Please put me down for a sick day. -- Hunter Matthews Unix Administrator Office: Bldg 221 Room B240 Argonne National Labs, MCS Key: F0F88438 / FFB5 34C0 B350 99A4 BB02 9779 A5DB 8B09 F0F8 8438 Never take candy from strangers. Especially on the internet.

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Where's JohnR
by John Roberts 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Likewise for me, I am not feeling well today. Already running late due to sluggishness. Please mark me down as a sick day.

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Where's Craig
by Craig Stacey 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Some sort of cold hit me like a freight train last night. Put me down for a sick day. Sent from my mobile

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where's Linda 1/11/11
by Linda Winkler 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

working from home today lw

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Where's Tina
by Tina Stanton-Piersanti 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

I am feeling better today, but I am completely worn out!!! I am going to take another sick day to rest some more. T.

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more cryptocard fixes
by Dan Olson 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

I changed the config on director.mcs.anl.gov to proxy connections between our 2 auth servers, mirroring the CIS cryptocard setup - and taking the load balancer out of the loop. If you manage systems that use cryptocard auth, please make sure they are configured for 2 authentication servers: auth.mcs.anl.gov auth2.mcs.anl.gov I have an example proxy.conf for freeradius with failover setup, if anyone needs it. ---- Daniel Murphy-Olson Systems Administrator Mathematics & Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 630-252-0055

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Fwd: Crypto server status
by Dan Olson 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Update: Cryptocard is sending me some troubleshooting steps to perform. One of them is to restart replication using their method which will require an outage of about 45 minutes. I'm implementing a workaround for the current situation as follows: The crypto server will send mail to a mailing list consisting of the crypto server operators when it disables any corrupt token. The monitor script will start a validation process when a token is detected as corrupt which will correct the checksum so the token will be visible in the console, marked disabled. When we receive the mails we can mark the token enabled, which should allow the user to successfully logon without reinitializing the token. The best window for the downtime before the break would be late this evening, if we can't get the downtime this evening, I recommend using the workaround until the new year. In its current state our exposure to this issue appears to be limited to less than 10 users per week. I will be checking the disabled token emails at least daily over the break. Also, if anyone has any issues over the break I will be local, and I can be reached directly at 630-324-0000. ---- Daniel Murphy-Olson Systems Administrator Mathematics & Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 630-252-0055 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Olson" <deolson(a)mcs.anl.gov> To: "core-admins" <core-admins(a)mcs.anl.gov> Cc: "Jini Ramprakash" <ramprakash(a)zimbra.mcs.anl.gov>, "Robert R. Scott" <scott(a)alcf.anl.gov> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 9:59:36 AM Subject: Crypto server status I've been on the phone working with cryptocard support all morning. The server has been detecting tokens as corrupt, it affected 4 users yesterday, also per the logs it appears these four users will have problems today. An overnight validation process disabled them again. The rest of the users should be functional. The users are: cdaley gjordan fischer eholohan I will send updates as soon as I have any. ---- Daniel Murphy-Olson Systems Administrator Mathematics & Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 630-252-0055

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Where's Corby
by Schmitz Corby 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Working from home tomorrow morning waiting on comcast and the plumber. Just for reference, the two service calls are unrelated. I will be online and available by cell tomorrow and I hope to be in the office by 11. -corby

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Where's Bryant
by Bryant Fortson 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

I'm waiting on an update to see if my car will be ready this morning. Hopefully so. If not I'll try and play the car shuffle again and get into to work. -- Bryant Fortson MCS Systems

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