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[Mario Lipinski <mario AT cacert.org>]

Hi Bernhard,

Am 07.04.2013 00:42, schrieb Bernhard Fröhlich:
> Firstly, the server's clock is currently late by about 3 minutes. This
> may lead to problems when new users request and install a new client
> certificate and immediately try to log in to CATS (see
> https://bugs.cacert.org/view.php?id=1108).
> 
> Since I'm no root on cats.cacert.org I cannot fix the clock, can you do
> this? And maybe it would eb a good idea to install a NTP deamon or some
> similar software to keep the clock synchronized.

We have an ntp running. I tried to do some investigation on this and I
could not verify it. The clock is synced now. I could not verify whether
ntpd was operating correctly before since the service was restarted
because of some problems which later turned out as some issues with
loopback IPv6.
There is no need to install ntp on CATS since the clock is set by the
host system and should/can not be modified by the virtual environments.

> The second thing, since the CATS repository has moved from the SVN
> server to GitHub it would be nice to be able to use git to install new
> software versions. Besides installing git, I guess that the firewall
> would have to be adjusted to allow at least http(s) access to github.com.

Done.
You are now root (via sudo). Feel free to install git. There currently
is no responsible system admin for the CATS system.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Mario Lipinski
Infrastructure Team Leader,         E-Mail: 
mario AT cacert.org
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