sPHENIX is a new detector at RHIC.

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hi folks,

again - this only affects users of rcf mail who do not use the BNL 
Office 365 outlook with a BNL domain account and itd mail and it does 
not affect outgoing mail.

But the vast majority of us has to deal with this change if we want to 
continue reading our mails with an email client.

Yesterday dual factor authentication became mandatory for webmail, racf 
has put out instructions for this:

https://www.racf.bnl.gov/docs/services/email/MFA

what isn't mentioned in these instructions that the google authenticator 
can also be run in chrome, so you do not need a smart phone (Thanks 
Maxim) - you can run both and their code actually agrees :)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gauth-authenticator/ilgcnhelpchnceeipipijaljkblbcobl

The web interface looks decent on my cell, certainly good enough to read 
everything.

Now to the looming April 15 deadline where DOE mandates that IMAP needs 
Multi Factor Authentication (MFA).

racf has a little documentation about it:
https://www.phy.bnl.gov/computing/index.php/RCF_Email_MFA

In the long run email clients will support MFA and then this becomes a 
non issue but not in time for this change and the bottom line is that 
most likely you need to set up an ssh tunnel and you probably want to do 
this before the deadline.

I use cygwin but would recommend PuTTY if you just need the ssh tunnel 
since it is simpler to install. I played around with it today and wrote 
up how to set up a tunnel using it and what needs changing in 
thunderbird. I put this in our respective wikis (they are identical)

PHENIX: 
https://www.phenix.bnl.gov/WWW/offline/wikioff/index.php/MFA_for_racf_mail
sPHENIX: https://wiki.bnl.gov/sPHENIX/index.php/Mfaemail

I suspect that there will be problems, chances are they will be similar. 
Please let's use mattermost, one channel for both PHENIX and sPHENIX:
https://chat.sdcc.bnl.gov/phenix/channels/rcf-email
everyone with an rcf account can join (if you have rcf email you have an 
rcf account) rather than having one on one emails.

Chris





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Christopher H. Pinkenburg       ;    pinkenburg AT bnl.gov
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