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Computer Account Assignment

All students currently enrolled in CS courses receive accounts on the department's instructional computing systems. Students enrolled in any CS course will receive an account on Lectura (the department's centralized Unix timesharing server), the Windows domain (good for login on all instructional Windows systems), and the instructional Linux systems (located in GS 228). Other instructional accounts may be made available as per specific request of the course instructor.

All formally admitted CS majors will receive continuing (not disabled at end of each semester) Lectura and Windows accounts for the duration of their stay in the program.

Accounts for non-majors are disabled each semester when finals period ends and are permanently deleted at the beginning of the next semester. Students pre-registered for CS courses have an opportunity to keep their accounts open by running the CS APPLY program during the last three weeks of the semester. Other students who are continuing CS course work may reactivate their accounts at the beginning of each new semester.

CS Faculty, Research Assistants and Research Staff will have accounts generated for them on department designated Research machines on a per request basis. Home directories will remain on one of our centralized file servers.

CS alumni (degree holders from our program) will receive continuing accounts on our timesharing systems. Rules for use of this account remain the same as for all other CS account holders. Note that alumni accounts are renewed yearly.

Lab support systems do not have user accounts.

Individually Assigned systems may be used by others with the permission of the owner. (This is not to imply that other users may not share compute cycles on your workstation through software such as Condor.)

Individually Assigned systems are primarily desktop workstations located in individual staff and faculty offices. Work on these systems must be carefully controlled and monitored. Physical access to these systems by other than the workstation assignee is not usually possible. Users with login permission via NIS should coordinate with the workstation's owner before running any processes.

Last updated Monday, 07-Jan-2008 09:32:28 MST, by John Luiten
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