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August 21, 2006
Blog Downtime - Tuesday Aug. 22 10-11 am
Update: This work has been completed.
For most of the hour you will continue to be able to read blogs, but you will not be able to login or make changes.
The purpose of this downtime is to move blogs.usask.ca to a newer, faster web server and to allow us to use CAS authentication for blogs.
CAS stands for Central Authentication Service. CAS was originally developed at Yale University and is now used in many other places as well.
With CAS, you login once and then have access to multiple services. In future, CAS will make it easier for us to hook additional services into PAWS.
At the moment we are using CAS on our test Wiki server (wiki.usask.ca). Once we turn on CAS authentication for blogs, you will be able to move from blogs to wikis without re-entering your password (and vice versa). As we expand CAS authentication to other areas, it will reduce the number of times you have to type in your username and password each day.
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