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The Fermilab Computer Security Team administers the laboratory's computer security program and provides the Fermilab community with technical expertise and up-to-date information and resources for improving computer security.

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What's New    

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  • May 8, 2008: Added a list of the KCA certficate Distinguished Names for robots (special Kerberos principals) which will be issued by the new KCA servers.
  • May 2, 2008: Added initial list of the KCA certficate Distinguished Names for people which will be issued by the new KCA servers.
  • April 22, 2008: FAQ concerning the new KCA service
  • April 3, 2008: Instructions for forwarding apache access, error, etc logs to central logging can be found here. Apache baseline is CD-DocDB # 1536. RA policies are #2336 and #2360.
  • January 11, 2008: See Issues with Expired Certificates for instructions on dealing with expired certificates in your certificate stores.  Some of you may have an expired DOEGrids CA certificate which might be causing problems.
  • December 11, 2007: Added start of How-To Guide on Notes on Changing Your Kerberos Passwords.
  • October 9, 2007: Changed the configuration files used to generate DOEGrids host/service certificate requests to include a single CN in the DN; for multi-home nodes use a regular expression such as (a|b|c|d).fnal.gov for this CN.
  • August 30, 2007: Updates on Tools page, linking to newer release of Win32OpenSSL and removed the link to Kerberos Client-only for Windows/Cygwin as this package is no longer supported and very much out of date.
  • August 15, 2007: DOEGrids Certificate Users: Please renew (replace) your personal certificates as soon as you receive the renewal notice E-mail from DOEGrids.org. Do Not Wait until the expiration date since the pki1.doegrids.org service site will not accept expired certificates for authentication.

For assistance contact helpdesk@fnal.gov.
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