[Tornado-users] Re: Logins temporarily disabled

[Johan Raber]

> Dear Gimle, Tornado, Dunder, Vagn users,
>
> this night a rather nasty Linux kernel security vulnerability was
> disclosed on the Internet together with code to exploit it to get
> root from a normal user account.
>
> While we investigate this and make our systems secure against this bug, 
> logins are temporarily disabled.
>
> You will get progress information later today.

Tornado update: the login server and the idle nodes are now patched and
ready for use again. The currently busy nodes with be rebooted and made
available when the running jobs are done.

Best regards,
NSC support