[7986] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Linerva transition meeting today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Wed Jan 29 09:13:33 2014
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Alexander W Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
CC: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>,
Alexander Chernyakhovsky
<achernya@MIT.EDU>,
"linerva@mit.edu" <linerva@MIT.EDU>,
"release-team@mit.edu" <release-team@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:13:21 +0000
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On Jan 29, 2014, at 5:02 AM, Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU<mailto:adehnert=
@MIT.EDU>> wrote:
Linerva crashed this evening, so we decided to do the transition early.
Documentation of the change is at http://web.mit.edu/linerva/www/. In the p=
rocess of writing that, I noticed some lacking documentation that I would h=
ave liked to link to:
- Why doesn't athena.dialup work with ssh -k (there's okay docs on how to u=
se ssh -K instead, but I'd love to have something to link to for the "why" =
behind the "no" answer to "Can I use athena.dialup without delegating my ti=
ckets?=94
Let me think about where the right place to put that is.
- How can I use ssh public key authentication on athena.dialup? https://ath=
ena10.mit.edu/trac/ticket/1216#comment:11 explains how to do it, but is als=
o clear that there should be some text about the issues with it. I'm not re=
ally able to write that text at 4AM, and in any case I would prefer somebod=
y appropriate at IS&T write text they like, rather than me trying to guess.
Here, have a skeleton article. I=92ll flesh it out later, specifically to =
include setting up _new_ key pairs (do we want to issue recommendations abo=
ut keysize (4096?) or preferred algorithm?)
http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/qz4YCQ
-Jon
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<div>On Jan 29, 2014, at 5:02 AM, Alex Dehnert <<a href=3D"mailto:adehne=
rt@MIT.EDU">adehnert@MIT.EDU</a>> wrote:</div>
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<blockquote type=3D"cite">Linerva crashed this evening, so we decided to do=
the transition early.<br>
<br>
Documentation of the change is at <a href=3D"http://web.mit.edu/linerva/www=
/">http://web.mit.edu/linerva/www/</a>. In the process of writing that, I n=
oticed some lacking documentation that I would have liked to link to:<br>
- Why doesn't athena.dialup work with ssh -k (there's okay docs on how to u=
se ssh -K instead, but I'd love to have something to link to for the "=
why" behind the "no" answer to "Can I use athena.dialup=
without delegating my tickets?=94</blockquote>
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<div>Let me think about where the right place to put that is.</div>
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<blockquote type=3D"cite">- How can I use ssh public key authentication on =
athena.dialup?
<a href=3D"https://athena10.mit.edu/trac/ticket/1216#comment:11">https://at=
hena10.mit.edu/trac/ticket/1216#comment:11</a> explains how to do it, but i=
s also clear that there should be some text about the issues with it. I'm n=
ot really able to write that text
at 4AM, and in any case I would prefer somebody appropriate at IS&T wr=
ite text they like, rather than me trying to guess.<br>
</blockquote>
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<div>Here, have a skeleton article. I=92ll flesh it out later, specif=
ically to include setting up _new_ key pairs (do we want to issue recommend=
ations about keysize (4096?) or preferred algorithm?)</div>
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<div><a href=3D"http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/x/qz4YCQ">http://kb.mit.edu/co=
nfluence/x/qz4YCQ</a></div>
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-Jon
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