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Tag Archives: security
Password requirements change
Passwords created or changed from now onwards will need to be of higher complexity than was permitted previously. Details of the requirements can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/local/sys/access/kerberos/. Existing passwords will continue to work as normal – you only need to be aware … Continue reading
New package signing key
A new key (3294FB03) has been generated to sign all Lab packages (RPMs and .debs). This has been installed on most Lab managed machines. Private machines which use the Lab repositories will need to register the new key.
slogin-serv move to NFS sec=krb5
Any users of the “slogin-serv” service should be aware that changes are to be made which may require them to run “kinit” to access their home directory.
New package signing key
A new key has been generated to sign all Lab packages (RPMs and .debs). This has been installed on most Lab managed machines. Private machines which use the Lab repositories will need to register the new key.
dns[01].cl auth NS to refuse “other” requests
The authorative nameservers for cl.cam.ac.uk are moving to return REFUSED for requests for other domains
new page on sec=krb5
The new page nfs-sec-krb5 has some initial simple (!) examples of using NFS sec=krb5 – feedback welcome.
Tool to test ssh authorized_keys files
Users can check that their ~/.ssh/authorized_keys files is “acceptable” with /usr/groups/admin/cmds/check-ssh-auth.pl.