Regular accounts:
Accounts are allocated to declared CS concentrators, to non-concentrators taking CS courses for which access to departmental systems is needed, and to graduate students. Accounts for declared concentrators and for graduate students are permanent-a permanent account will be deleted when the associated individual leaves school. All other accounts are deleted at the end of every semester.There are no exceptions to the account deletion policy.

To request a regular account, simply login to a departmental workstation as "newuser". No password is required. Provide the requested information. Your account will be created as soon as your status has been verified. You are allowed to choose your own user id. Make the choice carefully, since we will not change user ids once they have been allocated.

All undergraduate accounts have a printer quota of 150 pages per month. Graduate student accounts have a quota of 300 pages per month. PhD candidates are exempt from printer quotas.

Accounts for undergraduates and MS students have a 200MB disk quota. PhD students have a 1GB quota. Home directories are backed up onto magnetic tape. We make 20GB of "scratch disk" available to all accounts. Scratch space is not backed up.

Telnet and rlogin access to departmental systems from outside the department is not allowed. Ssh is allowed to all departmental systems (RSA and password authentication are permitted).

Accounts for M-S Hall 002:
Computing for the lower-level courses is confined to the laboratory in M-S Hall 002. Accounts are allocated for this lab at the beginning of every semester; the accounts are deleted at the end of the semester. Instructors in these courses provide students with the information required to have an account allocated.

Regular accounts don't work in 002; accounts for 002 work only on systems in that room.

Account Deletion:
You must have a continuing formal relationship with the department in order to have a permanent account. Faculty, staff, regular graduate students, and undergraduate concentrators all have permanent accounts. When a student leaves the College, his/her account is deleted. Account deletions take place shortly after the end of each semester. The only exception to this policy is that graduating doctoral students keep their accounts for a year after graduation.

When a permanent account is deleted, the user's directory is rolled onto an archive tape. Note that files on a scratch disk are not archived.

Last modified: October 17, 2002