News
Outage of the sheldon head node
The scratch filesystem of the sheldon head node was temporarily unavailable today and the node had to be rebooted.
Jul 23, 2024
The login server has been reinstalled
We have reinstalled our central SSH login host login.physik.fu-berlin.de, which means that the corresponding SSH host keys have changed and SSH, SCP and SFTP clients will show a warning about this. Find the hashes for the new host keys in this news item.
Apr 16, 2024
box.fu maintenance
The box.fu service (provided to FUB by TUB) will be offline for maintenance starting Friday 19.4. at 3 p.m. until the next day, but it might be unavailable until Sunday.
Apr 15, 2024
A New Wave of Phishing
A new wave of phishing mails has started, seemingly from genuine FU addresses. Please be advised that you will not receive unsolicited support requests from and we will not ask you for your login credentials. Do not trust links in emails.
Aug 24, 2023
Change of Mount Options
On Thursday 6.4. we will change the mount options of the /net/dataXY directories, which are meant for storage of scientific data, to include noexec to disallow executing binaries stored there.
Mar 29, 2023
No FollowMe printing on Friday 31. March
The FollowMe printers will be unavailable this Friday 31. March from 13:00-18:00 due to a software upgrade of the central university printer server. The existing Physics department printers will not be affected.
Mar 29, 2023
BIOS Updates
Due to the recent phishing wave we want to point out that the prompts for BIOS updates on Windows are genuine.
Dec 14, 2022
Phishing
There's a large wave of phishing mails going around this morning claiming to be from ZEDAT support. Neither ZEDAT nor we will ever write you mails asking you for passwords or any other credentials, since in the case of abuse we lock accounts and void credentials, making such questions unnecessary. Any communication from ZEDAT will always point to domains below fu-berlin.de . If you receive suspicious emails, please let us know about it at zedv@physik.fu-berlin.de .
Dec 12, 2022
ID migration
The maintenance has been finished and we have harmonised our user and group IDs with ZEDAT.
Sep 05, 2022
Matrix Space for the Winter Semester
You can now join the space for the new semester on our Matrix instance to meet other students and chat over courses. New students are very welcome in our room for first semester students or master students .
Mar 31, 2022
Matrix Space for the New Semester
You can now join the space for the new semester on our Matrix instance to meet other students and chat over courses. New students are very welcome in our room for first semester students .
Mar 31, 2022
Network Issues
ZEDAT is currently reconfiguring their routers so that some of our services might be momentarily unavailable.
Dec 30, 2021
New Hosts for Remote Linux Desktop
We are upgrading login.physik.fu-berlin.de on Wednesday at 1.p.m. and making it an SSH-only host. vdesk01.physik.fu-berlin.de and vdesk02.physik.fu-berlin.de are standing ready now as new Linux remote desktop hosts for usage with X2go
Sep 28, 2021
