ARCHIVED: Descriptions of available accounts at IUPUI

If you are a student or faculty or staff member at IUPUI, you are eligible for a specific set of computing accounts. If you have additional computing needs, you may request other accounts. The following describes the available accounts at IUPUI.

Initial accounts

Most students, faculty, and staff at IUPUI are entitled to the following accounts:

• IUPUI email account: For reading and sending email
• ADS Domain account: Necessary to log into Windows computers in the Student Technology Centers (STCs)
• Kerberos: For authentication for most campus services, excluding Oncourse

If you used the Account Management Service (AMS) or attended orientation, you received these accounts at that time. For more information, see the Knowledge Base document Create your first IU computing accounts (admitted students, faculty, staff, affiliates, and those returning to IU)

If your accounts were not successfully created, do one of the following:

• Visit the AMS at:

    https://itaccounts.iu.edu/

  Note: For the AMS, use a web browser capable of making a secure connection (one that supports SSL), such as the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari, and be sure you are able to accept cookies.

  Use your Network ID username and password to log in, and follow the on-screen instructions to create accounts.

  Allow yourself 10 to 15 minutes to complete the account creation process. Your session will time out if left inactive for more than five consecutive minutes, requiring that you log in and begin the process again.

• If this doesn't work for you, visit the UITS Support Center in Indianapolis for assistance. The Support Center is located in the Education/Social Work Building (ES 2126) and is open Monday-Thursday, 8am-9pm; Friday, 8am-5pm; Saturday, 9am-3pm; and Sunday, 12pm-4pm.

Requests for all other UITS accounts

1. Visit the AMS at:

     https://itaccounts.iu.edu/

   Note: For the AMS, use a web browser capable of making a secure connection (one that supports SSL), such as the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari, and be sure you are able to accept cookies.

   You will need to know your Network ID username and password to access this service.

2. When you have logged into the service, click create more accounts. You will see a list of the UITS accounts for which you are eligible. Select the appropriate account and follow the on-screen instructions to request the account.
   Note:

   For departmental, student organization, or group accounts, you can change the passphrase if you know the current one. Other account settings must be handled by the account owner.

Only faculty and staff may request Exchange accounts through the AMS. For more information about how to request an Exchange account, see the Knowledge Base document ARCHIVED: Exchange accounts at IU For information about eligibility for accounts on the Research SP, see the Knowledge Base document ARCHIVED: At IU, who may use Big Red or the Libra Cluster? For information about eligibility for accounts on the AFS or MDSS, see the Knowledge Base document ARCHIVED: At IU, who can get an RFS or MDSS account?

If the AMS does not list the account you need, contact the UITS Support Center in Indianapolis by phone at 317-274-4357 or send email to ithelp@iu.edu.

CFS account

A CFS account provides you with 100MB of hard disk space for storing files; you can access this storage space from any computer that is connected to the Internet. To request a CFS account, follow the instructions in the Knowledge Base document ARCHIVED: At IU, how can I apply for an account on the CFS?

Unix systems

The Unix systems can be divided into two categories, general use and research only, which are described below:

• General use: Steel is a cluster of four Sun Ultra-SPARC workstations running Solaris. All Indiana University students, faculty, and staff may create accounts on Steel. Steel supports news, web access, and email, as well as a variety of research-oriented software. Steel accounts replace Cord accounts at IUPUI for editing personal home pages that appear at mypage.iupui.edu (formerly php.iupui.edu).
• Research only: The system described here is configured to support only computing research. The Research SP does not accept in-bound mail from the network. Furthermore, newsreaders, information clients (e.g., Lynx), and IRC clients are not supported on this system. For more information, visit:

    https://www.indiana.edu/~rats/research/

  The UITS Research SP system is dedicated to the research needs of IU Bloomington and IUPUI faculty, staff, and graduate students. Staff and graduate students must have a faculty sponsor. For more information about the Research SP, see the Knowledge Base document ARCHIVED: At IU, what was the Research SP system?

Specialized systems

IUIS accounts

Indiana University Information Services (IUIS) is an Amdahl mainframe running the MVS operating system and is home to a wealth of information about IUPUI. Faculty and students use IUIS primarily to access services such as class registration, student records and financial information (available through Insite), the student advising system, information about degree programs, and electronic class rosters. Administrators, staff, and faculty use IUIS to maintain and access IUPUI's institutional data.

Many of the above IUIS services are available without an account. For more information, see the Knowledge Base document ARCHIVED: How do I open a session to IUIS?

In order to request an IUIS account, faculty and staff may print and submit a copy of the User Agreement, available at:

  http://www.indiana.edu/~iudata/dataadmin/CDS/forms.html

Note: Submission of this form does not constitute a complete request for access to institutional applications or data; for access, users must also contact the appropriate Data Manager. Also note that this form is not in itself an application for a SafeWord card.

For more information, see the Knowledge Base document ARCHIVED: At IU, how do I get an IUIS account?

Departmental LAN accounts

Request a departmental LAN account from the network administrator for the department that owns the account.

The university web server (Champion)

The university web server provides WWW space for online publication by IUPUI departments and officially recognized organizations (including officially recognized student groups). For more information on obtaining an account on the university web server, visit "Accounts on the IUPUI Web Server" at:

  http://webmaster.indiana.edu/account_info/aciupui.shtml