Please note that we now STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you use the version of Kerberos which comes as part of the Auristor OpenAFS client and follow the procedure detailed in AFS for Windows to obtain Kerberos credentials and (optionally) AFS tokens. If you have an urgent query, please contact us through the support form
Download the appropriate installer from Secure Endpoints:
The School Git/Gerrit service is no longer available,Any existing repositories have been migrated away or deleted.
The original, CVS based, Informatics web site uses SSI (Server Side Includes) headers and footers to give the pages a look and feel consistent with what was the College look at the time. However we've yet to update the SSIs with the most recent styling refresh.
Any web page that is based on the recommended template /template.html will get that look.
It is very important that software is installed, tested and distributed as early as possible before the start of teaching, so as to avoid any compatibility problems with DICE. We preserve versions of key software, once finalized, throughout the session (and until after any laboratory examinations) to ensure that students keep a consistent environment. Each year new teaching staff will be prompted to request or update any teaching software they use: look out for these messages from the PIP system.
CVS "tags" the file with the version number.
The Informatics Web Service was originally designed at the beginning of 1999. The Web Working Group supervised the design process, the details on their pages and in their mailing list archive may help to explain the background to many of the decisions made concerning the site.
If the question you wanted to ask isn't covered here, then please check the other documentation as well.
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.