[okfn-help] [sysadmin-coord] Migration of the OKFN blogfarm to Page.ly on Wednesday; blog issues

[Rufus Pollock]

Agreed.

Rufus

On 6 August 2012 16:10, Bobby Donovan <bobby at bobbydonovan.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 August 2012 17:45, Nils Toedtmann <nils.toedtmann at okfn.org> wrote:
>> > Hi *,
>> >
>> > Bobby and i will migrate our Wordpress blog farm (s053.okserver.org aka
>> > blogfarm.okserver.org aka *.okfn.org) to the dedicated wordpress
>> > provider Page.ly on
>> >
>> >   Wednesday, August 8th
>> >
>> > starting after 14:00 BST. The blog sites should be available mostly, but
>> > they will be in read-only mode for some time. Progress of the migration
>> > will be tracked here
>> >
>> >     http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/1281
>> >
>> >
>> > We will reset all passwords during the migration. You might want to
>>
>> Which passwords? And if this is normal user passwords why do we need
>> to do this? Is there any way to avoid this.
>
>
> An issue we did not address during the recent blog farm hack and prior
> timthumb security issues is that user password hashes may have been
> compromised, including all admin accounts. The migration presents us with a
> good opportunity to address this security issue.
>
> Not only will people have an obvious prompt to reset their password via the
> automated system, I also envision this as a useful propagation test
> procedure. Login/reset/register will all be disabled on the existing site,
> thus when a user can see these features active again they know they're
> looking at the correct, post migration version.
>>
>>
>> Rufus
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