Technical Coordinators Meeting Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila January 12, 2005

Password Changes Longer Internet passwords available Jan 11 Longer Internet passwords available Jan 11 –Maximum length extended to 125 –A few clients limit to as few as 32 –Minimum remains 6 (for now) Passwords now checked with cracklib when changed Passwords now checked with cracklib when changed

Password Changes Helpline and PLAs will have a new password change mechanism Helpline and PLAs will have a new password change mechanism –Server assigns new 6-8 character random password to user –User must change password within 24 hours (or it stops working) –Slated for late Jan/early Feb after PLAs notified

Morris Changes Morris MTAs upgraded Morris MTAs upgraded All virus scanning now performed on inbound (MX) servers only All virus scanning now performed on inbound (MX) servers only –Twin Cities: mtain-*.tc.umn.edu –Morris: mta-*.mrs.umn.edu Morris changes from mrs.umn.edu to morris.umn.edu on Feb 1 Morris changes from mrs.umn.edu to morris.umn.edu on Feb 1

Departmental MTA Registration MTAs using the relay.tc.umn.edu service must register MTAs using the relay.tc.umn.edu service must register –Send IP address and contact information to Includes the relay-by-IP service (currently ) Includes the relay-by-IP service (currently ) Unregistered MTAs will be denied access starting July 5 Unregistered MTAs will be denied access starting July 5

Phase-out of clear-text passwords Mailings went out to all non-SSL POP Mailings went out to all non-SSL POP users (about 10,000 users) Future mailings will be separated into Morris and Twin Cities variants Future mailings will be separated into Morris and Twin Cities variants FTP mailing going out Jan 20 FTP mailing going out Jan 20 Next general mailing in early Feb Next general mailing in early Feb

Forwarding 169,238 users have central ; 169,238 users have central ; of those… –26,994 (16%) are forwarding –17,778 (10%) forward outside the U –8,223 (5%) forward to free providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, or Gmail)

Outages Performance issues on one server (ruby) on January 6 Performance issues on one server (ruby) on January 6 Awaiting SAN connectivity for two remaining servers Awaiting SAN connectivity for two remaining servers

Authentication Outage Radius authentication outage Jan 11 between 1822 and 2145 Radius authentication outage Jan 11 between 1822 and 2145 Affected modem pool, Wirewall, and VPN only Affected modem pool, Wirewall, and VPN only x500.umn.edu is the only supported means of accessing Radius services x500.umn.edu is the only supported means of accessing Radius services

Directory Services X.500 directory software upgraded on all servers effective Jan 5 X.500 directory software upgraded on all servers effective Jan 5 Now running Global Directory Server 2003 (was GDS 2001) Now running Global Directory Server 2003 (was GDS 2001)

‘Till next month… Chris Bongaarts Chris Bongaarts Steve Siirila Steve Siirila