2021: The following refers to how CVS was used to manage content on the www.inf.ed.ac.uk web site over 20 years ago. Most content has now been migrated to other systems, but there is are still pockets of content managed via CVS. Mostly this document is for historical interest only.
Teach your Mac to query Informatics LDAP servers for user information.
2021 The following describes how CVS was used to manage content on the www.inf.ed.ac.uk web site over 20 years ago. Most content has now been migrated to other systems, but there is are still pockets of content managed via CVS. Mostly this document is for historical interest only.
As the Informatics web site evolves over time, this document becomes less relevant. However, while there are still pages maintained via the CVS publishing mechanism, parts of it will still be useful. See the Main Informatics Website topic for more background on the evolution of www.inf.ed.ac.uk.
What follows applies to the content that is still managed via CVS.
These documents detail the CVS-based publishing system for the School of Informatics Web Server. From here you can find information on editing pages, on viewing their change history, and details on some of the procedures and tools used in creating this site.
Generally, only staff will need publishing access to the Informatics Web Server.
How to set up backups for your self-managed Windows machine.
Informatics has added SPNEGO support to web servers which use the Cosign service. This means that Informatics users using compatible browsers - currently Firefox and Chrome on all platforms and Safari on MacOS to a limited degree (†) - can authenticate to such web services using their existing Kerberos credentials, and without being prompted for their username and password.
In previous years the School gave students some printing credit at the start of each semester, but in line with the University's green printing policies, and in common with every other School in the University, this is no longer the case.
Taught students do receive a small amount of credit from the central computing service when they first join the University.
For more details of the print service, including costs please see the central documentation.
macOS comes with kerberos already installed.
There are two ways to authenticate to your DICE account using Kerberos on the Mac - using the command-line Terminal utility, or using the graphical Ticket Viewer. This document describes both.
This document describes how to install and configure Kerberos for Ubuntu.