From mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu Fri Mar 4 11:44:00 2011 From: mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu (Michael J. Baysek) Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:44:00 -0500 Subject: [auton-users] Password Guidelines (Laws) Message-ID: <4D7116D0.70703@cs.cmu.edu> *PASSWORD GUIDELINES* (aka The Law) Poor passwords are currently the greatest threat to life as we know it! Well, at least as far the security of lab resources are concerned. One reason that password strength is so important, especially for us, is that the university publishes (over and over) our user names by default on their various websites. If your Auton Lab user name is the same as your CMU user name, an attacker already has your valid user account. Simply put, we work with too much sensitive data to afford using sub-par password strength. Enlighten yourself and visit http://www.autonlab.org/pwcheck/ right now and run your existing passwords through the tool there. Notice the different things that are updated in real time as you add features to your password. If your password does not score at least 50% (ideally, higher) on the Score meter, consider another password immediately. Additionally, using the same passwords that you use for other services (email, websites, etc) must be avoided. Check your passwords with the tool above and change them [again] if you need to. Don't skip this! Security depends on all of us, and we should not rest until we all do our part. -- Michael J. Baysek Systems Analyst Carnegie Mellon University / Auton Lab 412-268-8939 - mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu http://www.autonlab.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu Wed Mar 9 15:28:51 2011 From: mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu (Michael J. Baysek) Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:28:51 -0500 Subject: [auton-users] LOS1 Message-ID: <4D77E303.4040402@cs.cmu.edu> Hi Lab, Please do not consider using LOS1 for the next day or so, as I need to clear all active sessions on that machine and move it to another rack. Mike If you are no longer an active user of our compute system, please consider unsubscribing from this list. -- Michael J. Baysek Systems Analyst Carnegie Mellon University / Auton Lab 412-268-8939 - mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu http://www.autonlab.org From mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu Mon Mar 28 17:45:00 2011 From: mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu (Michael J. Baysek) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:45:00 -0400 Subject: [auton-users] LOU1 Compute Node Message-ID: <4D91015C.8070809@cs.cmu.edu> Attention Users: The LOU1 compute node had to be rebooted unexpectedly due to a runaway process which caused the machine to stop responding to the world. Any processes or sessions on that machine were killed. P.S. If you no longer use Auton Lab Computing resources and prefer not to receive information regarding the day-to-day system status, please consider unsubscribing at https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/users . Thanks! -- Michael J. Baysek Systems Analyst Carnegie Mellon University / Auton Lab 412-268-8939 - mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu http://www.autonlab.org From mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu Wed Mar 30 17:21:07 2011 From: mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu (Michael J. Baysek) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:21:07 -0400 Subject: [auton-users] /auton/data/fsis_rbi moved Message-ID: <4D939EC3.4080008@cs.cmu.edu> Attention Users: Anyone using the old /auton/data/fsis_rbi directory should know that it has been temporarily moved from the system to free up space. Please, direct any questions my way if you have any. -- Michael J. Baysek Systems Analyst Carnegie Mellon University / Auton Lab 412-268-8939 - mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu http://www.autonlab.org