This page explains an easy way to use Informatics OpenVPN on Linux.
There's also OpenVPN on Linux using NetworkManager if you'd prefer that.
Your password can be set in the Password Portal. This password must be unique. Your username looks like uun/ovpn.
In a terminal window:
If you sometimes struggle to remember passwords, or if you're ever tempted to re-use a password, a password manager can help.
A password manager can store your usernames and passwords - securely encrypted - and can generate strong random passwords for you. This makes it far easier to have a different strong password for each site you use.
DICE has keepassxc. It can save passwords to a local file, which it encrypts securely. On other computers, try KeePassXC.
This page describes the fire precaution procedures and mechanisms for the Forum server rooms.
This page contains the privacy statement for the School's Inventory (asset register).
Please read this privacy notice carefully and contact us with any questions or concerns about our privacy practices.
The School of Informatics (the “School”) is part of the University of Edinburgh (the “University”).
The server rooms have cooling systems, and these can fail. If they do, computing staff may contact you, or they may power down your machines.
See the emergencies page for details:
You can monitor the temperature of the room yourself. Here are two ways:
Users of the self-managed server rooms will be added to the mailing list called selfmanaged-sr, for the purposes of communicating news about the self-managed server rooms.
It's low volume, with occasional announcements and follow-up discussion.
Find out more about the self-managed server rooms:
If you remove machines from a self-managed server room - even temporarily - please tell computing support. It helps us to track what's going on, and plan accordingly.
Capacity in the self-managed server rooms is limited, and we monitor the overall usage.
If you remove a machine without telling us, we may reuse the space that was allocated to it.
Occasionally we have to turn off machines at short notice. There are a few reasons why we might need to do this:
Food and drink are not allowed in the School's server rooms.
Access is normally granted freely to those who manage machines in the rooms, but not to anyone else.