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• Blue Waters Notice: RSA deactivation on 4/7/2020

  Created by: jenos 2020-03-31 10:02:31 (Channels: systemnotices|policychange)

  Blue Waters partners-

   

  As noted previously, RSA authentication to Blue Waters has an upcoming deactivation scheduled.  The replacement authentication method via Duo was activated on Blue Waters in December, 2019. If you have not set up Duo and tested Duo authentication yet (for ssh or Globus endpoints), please do so as it will shift from optional to required for Blue Waters access on April 7th, 2020. The configuration changes required for all of the following events are not expected to cause any service interruption, with the exception of the services that are being retired of course.

  Relevant Event Timeline:

  December, 2019

  • Duo authentication enabled
  • "-duo" suffix on supplemental ssh login hostnames and Globus endpoints

  April 1, 2020

  • HPSS Near-line storage system permanently shut down

  April 7, 2020

  • RSA authentication permanently deactivated
  • Original ssh login hostnames and online Globus endpoints will use authentication with Duo instead of RSA
  • "-duo" suffix on supplemental ssh login hostnames deprecated, but will continue to function
  • Globus Online organizational login page will switch from RSA to CILogon
    CILogon Duo authentication can be tested before April 7 at https://cilogon.org/  (use "National Center for Supercomputing Applications" as Identity Provider)

  April 14, 2020

  • Supplemental "-duo" suffixed Globus endpoint names will be permanently retired

   

  Obsolete RSA hardware tokens do not need to be returned to NCSA, and can be disposed.

  If you have any questions, please send mail to help+bw@ncsa.illinois.edu

   

  
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  Blue Waters partners-   As noted previously, RSA authentication to Blue Waters has an upcoming deactivation scheduled.  The replacement authentication method via Duo was activated on Blue Waters in December, 2019. If you have not set up Duo and tested Duo authentication yet (for ssh or Globus endpoints), please do so as...
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