Wednesday, September 17, 2008
MyAccess review for Jann and pointed out the lack of user education on our campus regarding phishing and the risk we run with putting all our authentication and authorization points into a single solution which is clearly vulnerable to social engineering. Expanded permissions and relaxed requirements for usage by UCSF faculty and staff for official communications—see my Flickr profile for details. tinyurl.com seems to be down as of 10:40 AM Pacific—the page simply doesn't load. I learned through a Google search that b.tinyurl.com is their backup site when tinyurl.com is down, and that took longer but at least it generated the tinyurl I requested. Helped student TH with account lockout. TH had already set up pwmanage, but the process still took about 10 minutes because of password complexity requirements. Laptop setup. Lunch from the cafeteria, chatted in the work room with Lucia. Laptop pickup. Email migration followup for SR. Calendar maintenance. CTS followup. Listserv maintenance. Reported to Public Affairs that logging in to the A-Z list hangs and never finishes loading. Responded to Peter L's request of how to promote a lab website. Began troubleshooting email migration issue for student GL. Answered computer security questions for student YC. Responded to Marie and Kate about image requests—doesn't hurt to ask, but most likely we won't have the image you want yet—maybe 6 months from now. Password lockout for CJ. FTP connection help for Karen A. Handled a request in which an entering student imminently was awaiting a legal name change—should I wait to get my ID card?—a unique case. Answer: okay yes, you can wait and the Registrar can expedite the process—ask them for details. More listserv maintenance. Investigated University policy for Chris C—30.40 and 41.11. Dinner at home by myself (Patrick had a meal not too long before): leftovers. Watched Episode 4 of Heroes Season 1 on Netflix DVD with Patrick. Ran Disk Utility First Aid verify on both hard drives and Repair Disk Permissions on the primary hard drive. Stretches. Weight training: advanced plank (3:30), advanced one-legged plank (0:30 each leg). Stretches. To bed early (9:30).