> Did you notice that 2FA went away around 10 am? I worked on the team that made that happen. Its back now that the outage is over.
Yes, altough I did not get affected that much. I was just trying to renew overdue book from the library system. But I'm sure ~45k student got affected harshly in their first day of the semester.
> We do have an app that lets faculty exempt students from 2FA, but it's mostly for students who need the exception when taking tests etc.
It would be better if there is an option to allow graduate students who do research (PhD candidates) to be treated differently as they are not students anyway. And Duo is annoying. I understand that this is not something that will happen specially with the reputition of UC IT department (sorry but you problably know)
> You are going to see a big change in the tech at UC very soon. The old guard is getting the boot.
This is something I have been hearing since I joined but without the old guard getting the boot part. Each year with increasing student enrollment, we can't even provide stable internet connection. I still remember two years ago the outage of the auth server for wifi system on the first day of classes (after covid) and this stayed the case for almost a week.
