Robert,
I receive emails from Manchester users who can't sign, I got kicked out
of gridpp VO and finally got stopped at CHEP2012 in New York because
Italians and Germans received Babar VO emails about both. For Babar I'm
now investigating if we can eliminate it.
cheers
alessandra
On 24/05/2012 15:20, Robert Frank wrote:
> Alessandra,
>
> you are confusing the membership expiration with the requirement for a
> user to sign the VO's AUP (once a year by default).
>
> membership expiration:
> By default a new user's membership expires after a year unless it's
> being extended by a VO admin. A VO admin can't bulk-extend the
> membership expiration. This relates to the email I sent out 2 weeks ago.
> The deadline for this will kick in today afternoon, so if VO admins
> haven't extended their users' membership more emails will be send out
> this evening.
>
> sign the VO AUP:
> A user is required to sign the AUP of the VO:
> - when he requests membership
> - when the AUP is changed by a VO admin
> - after a time period which can be defined by the VO admin on the AUP
> page (default 365 days).
> The sign AUP emails have been sent to users who were already members
> when I upgraded the server a year ago.
> Dealing with those requests doesn't involve a VO admin, users can do
> that themselves. The main problem is that the links in the emails were
> wrong. If it wasn't for that many users could have just clicked on the
> link and signed the AUP.
> I have changed the expiration date of those requests to the 1st of June.
> I'm still testing it this extension is going to work (it's hard to
> predict how the software is going to react to the changes I've made, I
> haven't written it).
> Signing something on behalf of someone else is a dangerous business.
>
> Robert
>
> On 24/05/12 14:29, Alessandra Forti wrote:
>> Robert,
>>
>> a deadline of 24 hours with the wrong host name, possible problems
>> created by the change of CA dn and the fact that there is no way to do
>> the approval in batch and we have to ask you to do it anyway is not a
>> good way to do this makes me think you should approve all the
>> memberships for this time and write proper docs on how t do it (having
>> tested the procedure of course).
>>
>> As I said in the other email I thought I went through properly for
>> northgrid few weeks ago and the users are still receiving emails.
>>
>> cheers
>> alessandra
>>
>> On 24/05/2012 14:02, Robert Frank wrote:
>>> I've extended the deadline for the existing sign aup requests to the
>>> first of June. Users shouldn't get suspended if they don't sign it by
>>> 5.30pm tonight.
>>> This extension is for the existing requests only.
>>> If VO admins want to have permanent extensions to any of the request
>>> deadlines (confirmation of email address when requesting membership,
>>> sign aups) then they should contact me. I think a one week deadline
>>> for sign aup requests would be better than 24 hours.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>> On 24/05/12 11:28, Sam Skipsey wrote:
>>>> On 24 May 2012 06:09, Ewan MacMahon<[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>>>>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robert Frank
>>>>>>
>>>>>> it's both. Those emails are genuine, so people will have to act on
>>>>>> them.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Or you can make the server not follow through on the threatened
>>>>> suspensions. A 24 hour deadline is acceptable for a screaming
>>>>> emergency. This is not one.
>>>>
>>>> I concur. This is clearly going to be disruptive to people for no good
>>>> reason, so taking action to make the VOMS servers act sensibly seems
>>>> reasonable.
>>>>
>>>> Sam
>>>>>
>>>>> Ewan
>>
>>
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