[LTER-sbc_all] Fwd: [MSI-News] Adelie File Server and MSI Accounts

[Margaret O'Brien]

Hi all -
Our MSI sys admin (Jim Woods) is upgrading the login system (called LDAP) for
the research file server used by the two LTERs and PISCO, and the switch
will be thrown tonight. Jim describes it below. We have been anticipating
this merge for a while, and it should not be a problem for most of you.

However, you may see a problem if
a) your account is new
b) you have recently changed your groups or password
c) you have multiple accounts at MSI.

Please just ask me, Gastil or Jim  for help.

help at msi.ucsb.edu goes to Jim. Feel free to cc me.
Please do not type your password into those help requests.

I will be in the office tomorrow AM, July 4th.


Margaret


Margaret O'Brien
ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322
Information Management
Marine Science Institute, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: James Woods <jwoods at ucsb.edu>
Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 1:44 PM
Subject: [MSI-News] Adelie File Server and MSI Accounts
To: msi-news <msi-news at lists.msi.ucsb.edu>


Hello All,

The research file server (adelie.msi.ucsb.edu) has run off of a separate
user account tree for a long time. This means that you could have two
accounts just to access departmental systems. Over the past year we have
been merging user accounts from the adelie system into the MSI account
system. At this point we are ready to switch over to just using MSI
accounts.

Q. What does this mean?
A. an MSI Account will give you access to all departmental-hosted services
instead of using two different systems. This has no affect whatsoever on
UCSBnetid or Lifesci Accounts.

Q. Does this change my account?
A. The switch *should* be seamless for most users. You will use the same
username and password combination to authenticate to any MSI hosted service
( for example, files.msi.ucsb.edu and adelie.msi.ucsb.edu file servers). We
do expect to see some issues.

Q. My account isn't working, what do I do?
A. Send a note to help at msi.ucsb.edu and we will look in to your account set
up.

Q. My account works, but I don't have access to folders that I had before,
what do I do?
A. Send a note to help at msi.ucsb.edu and we will look in to your account
permissions.

We will complete the switch over *Today, July 3rd at 5pm. *Make sure to
save all your open files on adelie.msi.ucsb.edu and be prepared to log off
of that server.

Thank you for your patience during this migration.

Thanks,

Jim Woods



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