Account Management Tools for
Computer Science Systems
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.
Cron jobs
Because cron jobs are started without your password, they can't
normally access your files. you will need
to do "kgetcred -r" on each host where you're going to use cron. See "man kgetcred"
for more information. This mechanism is likely to change.
More information on users and accounts