What is the impact of the Heartbeat SSL bug on a Bright cluster? The Heartbleed bug (CVE-2014-0160) allows anyone to read memory belonging to the server process handling the connection, if they can...
How do I disable USB? Purpose There are two options to disable USB: 1. Via BIOS configuration (with or without password protection) 2. Via kernel...
Why do I get error messages after patching BASH for the Shellshock vulnerability? Symptom: The patching of BASH due to the shellshock vulnerability has introduced some changes with respect to the function definition syntax...
How to keep my port scanning tool from crashing my head node? If you find that using a port scanning tool like Nessus or nmap causes your head node to crash or...
What do I do about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities? Action to take if running a Bright Cluster If staying with vulnerable hardware, then software and firmware mitigation should be...
How can I prevent users from seeing processes that do not belong to them? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I install FreeIPA onto a Bright Cluster? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
Can I use Google Authenticator to connect to my cluster? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I change the cipher list CMDaemon negotiates with clients? Can I change the cipher list that CMDaemon will negotiate with clients? This article is being updated. Please be aware the...
How is a spoofing attack avoided in AD with Bright? [Everyone I speak about joining a node to AD indicates there is a unique key that the node receives at...
How do I configure Bright to manage a Self Encrypted Drive (SED)? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I add password protection to GRUB? Background The following process can be used to set password protection to GRUB. Steps 1. First, you must generate a...
How can I change the password policy of LDAP? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I upgrade CMDaemon and DCGM packages on head nodes and compute nodes? August 2021: Due to recently uncovered security issues there is a need to update cmdaemon and cuda-dcgm to mitigate known...
Log4j CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, and CVE-2021-45105 in Bright Cluster Manager The recent announcement and release of 0-day exploits for these issues makes this an important and highly visible topic. Based...
CVE-2021-4034: PwnKit A serious vulnerability has been discovered in the operating system package PolicyKit which may affect the users of Bright Cluster...
Required security upgrade for nvidia-container-toolkit A security issue has been found in nvidia-container-toolkit. All nodes that have this package installed need to have the package...
Required security upgrade for NVIDIA GPU Operator A security issue has been found in nvidia-container-toolkit. Since the NVIDIA GPU Operator has the ability to take care of...