[bioundgrd] Time to renew MIT certificates

[Gurukarm Khalsa]

It is time to renew your MIT certificates - your personal certificate  
expires July 30, but can be renewed now and will remain valid to July  
30 2007. As you know, your certificates are the mechanism through  
which you can access MIT web pages and services such as Benefits,  
SAPweb, WebSIS, and other restricted web content.

This year the MIT CA (certificate authority) certificate must be  
renewed as well. The new MIT CA certificate will be valid through  
8/1/2026, so this is an infrequent renewal as you can see.

Some specific instructions and pointers to useful web pages are  
below. Please email biocomp if you need further assistance.

Regards,
Gurukarm


Gurukarm K. Khalsa            Course 7 & Biology Dept. Web Ofc
68-132, 617-452-3683    	   MIT Dept. of Biology
gkkhalsa at mit.edu              http://mit.edu/biology/www/



Renewing your MIT Certificates:
links for certificates are here:
http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/certificates/

If you use Safari (Mac), see the instructions here:
http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=7145
Note: depending upon your OS version and Safari version, the  
screenshots on this page might look a little different than your  
actual Keychain window. That's fine, following the directions will  
still work correctly.
Glitch: Note instruction #7, which says when you view the certificate  
it should say "This certificate is valid". Once the certificate is  
installed, view it by choosing "Certificates" in the left-hand window  
under Category. In the right-hand window you should see your personal  
certificate and the MIT Certification Authority certificate. Double  
click the MIT CA authority. In the window which appears, if it says  
"This certificate is not in the trusted root database", do this:
o    hide the details,
o    then click on trust settings arrow to bring down options.
o    On the very first one, "when using this certificate", choose  
always trust. "Always trust" will appear within each menu.
o    Quit the Keychain and then relaunch it, and the certificate will  
now say "This certificate is valid".

Windows users: to avoid confusion about choosing which is the  
correct, current, certificate in IE, remove your old certificate  
before installing the new one. Instructions here: http://web.mit.edu/ 
ist/topics/certificates/delete.html.

Don't forget that you must renew your certificates for EVERY browser  
on EVERY computer you use (except in the case of Athena machines,  
where your certificates are stored in your personal Athena locker and  
thus available to you on any Athena workstation.)

Recommended browsers at MIT:
http://web.mit.edu/ist/topics/browsers/
Note: although Firefox is not listed as a recommended browser this  
year, it is supported by IS&T as an alternate browser. See the  
website: http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/ to download the most current  
version. Firefox also now automatically updates itself to get latest  
security patches and other fixes/improvements.
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