IRIS

We’re pleased to announce login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU, the new Unix general login server running Solaris 10 x86_64.

This server is using [OpenSSH](http://openssh.org) as the SSH daemon, so if you haven’t already [converted your ssh.com ssh keys to OpenSSH keys](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/15-faq/15-software/putty.html#import_key) you’ll need to do so before they’ll work on the new server.

Since login.eecs uses the x86_64 architecture, any binaries that you run from your home directory that were compiled on Sparc will need to be recompiled to work.

This server mounts the Solaris 10 for x86 sww. You should add
/usr/sfw/bin to your path (if you haven’t already) as most open-source software is available on Solaris 10 and therefore will not be on the Solaris 10 sww.

login.eecs will not mount /var/mail from mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU as this service will be discontinued in the near future. There will be an
announcement about that soon.

The old Unix General Login Server, argus.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be phased
out at a later date. There will be an announcement about that soon as well.
[Read more…] about New Unix General Login Server

iPhones with the new 2.0 firmware, including the new iPhone 3g, may have problems getting onto the EECS 802.11b wireless network despite having the proper WEP key entered. Users of iPhones may see an error message about an incorrect password.

The workaround for this is to enter the WEP key in hexadecimal instead of ASCII without any preceding “0x” or “$” characters in front of the key.

While some wireless clients ask that hex keys be preceded by “0x” or “$”, the iPhone does not do this and will not properly join the EECS wireless network if these preceding characters are used.

For example, if the EECS 802.11b WEP key in ASCII were “IloveAppleInc”, the hex version of the key would be “496C6F76654170706C65496E63”. (This is not the actual EECS 802.11b WEP key – it is just an example) .

Enter “496C6F76654170706C65496E63” instead of “IloveAppleInc”. Do not use “0x496C6F76654170706C65496E63” or “$496C6F76654170706C65496E63”.

If you need assistance getting your iPhone onto the EECS wireless network, please contact the EECS Helpdesk in 395 Cory Hall, x2-7777.

The IRIS website and Sympa mailing lists will be offline beginning at 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 to allow me to perform some routine maintenance on their hosting server.

Total downtime should be brief and any messages sent to a Sympa mailing list will be queued and delivered after maintenance has been completed.
[Read more…] about IRIS Website and Mailing Lists Offline Due to Maintenance

On Friday, August 1st from 6am to 2pm we will be migrating to the new filers
for home directories and project space. This downtime and migration affects the
majority of the users in the department.

All sysadmins have received the technical details necessary to evaluate the
impact on their users and should be contacting you. If you have additional
questions, please contact your system administrator or the department’s help
desk (help@eecs, 395 Cory, 642-7777).

The following services will be affected: coeus, project, argus, sww (not winsww).
[Read more…] about Department Filer Migration

There is a new web interface for the EECS IMAP mail server.

The URL is: https://webmail.eecs.berkeley.edu

This interface has a different look and feel from the old interface. It also allows the user to manage mail filters on the IMAP server. These rules are processed prior to any other rules that are in place, such as the rules on the server that processes SPAM.

Please feel free to try out this interface.

*It is currently in beta*, but will probably be announced as a production service soon.

The old webmail interface will remain at https://imap.eecs.berkeley.edu.

The campus “Minimum Security Standards for Networked
Devices” http://security.berkeley.edu/MinStds
approved software document was updated:

https://security.berkeley.edu/approved.software.html

The approved software document list devices and/or
operating systems that MUST run listed anti-virus
software and host-based firewall software.

Some of the most significant changes in the
approved software document are

Windows Vista must run anti-virus software and host-based firewall.

The campus SNS (System and Network Security) group recommends that Linux/Other UNIX devices run anti-virus software.

Windows 2000 Server must run a host-based firewall (using Windows IPSec).

Windows Server 2008 must run a host-based firewall