UNIX Account Policy

The university policy on acceptable use applies to all computer use in the department.

1. Employees and graduate students accounts.
   1. Current employees and graduate students in the department are entitled to accounts on the Math UNIX systems.
   2. Accounts of employees who retire from the university will, at their request, remain active indefinitely.
   3. The accounts of people who leave the university will remain active for 3 months. They can request guest status, see below.
2. Guest accounts.
   1. The preferred way to accomodate guests is to provide them with a short-term account with CITES. This in particular gives wireless internet access for laptops. Creation of this account costs nothing, requires no intervention by the system administration staff, and can be created directly by anyone with a UIUC NetID. See http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/guests/host-shortterm.html for more information.
   2. The second possibility to accomodate guests is to provide them with a login on the Windows computers (currently available 24/7 in 110 Altgeld). This requires activation by one of our system administrators. If you need this done, please e-mail help@math.uiuc.edu with your requirements.
   3. Finally, if a guest is doing active work in research, teaching or administrative support for the department and needs to be able to login to the Math UNIX computers the guest can ask a faculty or staff member to sponsor a guest UNIX account. Guest accounts will automatically have all local email forwarded to to their home e-mail address. Guest accounts must be re-approved every year by the sponsor. To sponsor a guest account, the sponsor should send an e-mail to help@math.uiuc.edu that contains the first and last name of the guest, date of activation, expected deletion date, and the guest's home e-mail address.
3. E-mail forwarding
   1. Users who have their accounts expire may request e-mail to be forwarded to an external e-mail address by sending e-mail to help@math.uiuc.edu.
   2. Guest accounts need to have a forwarding address specified at the time of account creation.