10/26/2020
The University White Pages Directory (WHIPS) is a public directory service that contains the public contact information of students, faculty, and staff. The IAM Committee endorsed a proposal from the Information Security Office (ISO) to add EID authentication to the directory web application (https://directory.utexas.edu) and remove Lightweight Directory Access Procotol (LDAP) and finger access. This change would limit the ability of bad actors to scrape data from WHIPS for use in various types of attacks. Upon review of this action, the IAM team determined that WHIPS customers and the public Directory website could be transitioned from WHIPS to the uTexas Enterprise Directory (TED), thus allowing the retirement of the LDAP and finger components of the WHIPS service.
The directory web application (https://directory.utexas.edu) will continue to be available behind EID authenticaton.
For more information about the WHIPS Retirement, please visit https://it.utexas.edu/projects/whips-retirement/overview.