Account Management Tools for
Computer Science Systems
Weblogin and jupyter.cs.rutgers.edu are out of date. It says to come here to create an account. You don't need to do that. Just login to weblogin or jupyter with your university netid and password. It will create an account automatically if you are eligible for an account. There will be a longer delay than normal to process your first login.
CS Accounts use your Netid. Computer science department facilities use your University NetID as their user name. You must have a University NetID before you can use a computer science department system. Here's the Univeristy's tool for activating your NetID: https://netid.rutgers.edu
CS Accounts are created automatically the first time you login. If you are eligible to use Computer Sience facilities, a Computer Science account will be created automatically the first time you login with your NetID and University password.
CS Accounts use your normal University password. In almost all cases, Computer science uses the same passwords as the rest of the University, so you can go to https://netid.rutgers.edu to change your password. If you forget your password, please contact the OIT help desk.
Eligibility for accounts
The following people are eligible for computer science department accounts:
- Computer science faculty and staff
- Computer science majors and grad students
- Students taking computer science courses except 110, 170 and 494
- Guests, research collaborators, etc. These will normally be sponsored by faculty.
- Retired faculty and staff. Guest accounts for them are maintined by the Computer Science Department office.
Lifetime of accounts and files
When users leave the University (or computer science), their accounts are closed. Files are archived. They will be deleted after a year, except for faculty files. Shared directories will be deleted or archived based on the user that owns them.
Sometimes users will have a continuing association with the Department even after leaving. Accounts may be continued as guest or retiree accounts. Any faculty member can sponsor a guest. The Computer Science Department handles retirees.
Managing Special Passwords
Most users use their University password. To change it, you should use netid.rutgers.edu .
Users with separate Computer science passwords can use Manage your Computer Science password. Separate computer science passwords are only permitted if you are going to use two-factor authentication.
If you need more security than a simple password can afford, please see two factor authentication.
Group and Guest Management
Use Group and Guest management. to create and manage groups. This is useful for three purposes:
- If you want to share files with a group of people, you can create a group that lists the people and then change the permissions of the file so they can access it. For more help with this, see Sharing files.
- If you are authorized (normally faculty) and want to allow grad students or collaborators to access reseearch or instructional systems, you can create a guest group. For help with this, see Managing your guest users.
- If you are runniing your own computer cluster, you can use groups to control what users are allowed to login.
More information on users and accounts
NOTE on cron jobs: For systems that use these accounts, cron jobs need special attention. If you're using cron, and you want your jobs to access files in your home directory, you must use "kgetcred -r" on each host where you're going to use cron. See "man kgetcred" for more information.