Story Author: Kathy Horvath, khorvath@iun.edu
Publish Date: May 2004
Source Publication: TechBuzz Report

Faculty and staff are to request their professional personal account from their departmental webmaster. A list of IU Northwest Webmasters is located on the IUN Website Information page. An active e-mail account is needed before requesting an account.

Departmental webmasters request the professional personal web account from IU Northwest webmaster, Kathy Horvath, via e-mail request. The departmental webmaster will create the anticipated account name with the first three initials of the departmental web and the first, middle and last initial of the person's name (an account name will be 6 characters). The e-mail request for a professional web account should contain the following:

Since the webmaster will be the sponsor of the account, the same information is also needed for the webmaster.

It will take 3 business days for Bloomington to process the account. The requestor and the departmental webmaster will receive an e-mail with password information. Be sure to print the information since you only see the password information once for security reasons. Once the person is no longer affiliated with the university, they give up rights to owning the account. However, the person will be given two weeks to remove any files from the account. Departmental Webmasters must notify the main IUN webmaster via e-mail with the person's name, department and web account name so that the account may be deleted.

Departmental e-mail accounts are available for all IUN veritas web accounts. Contact IUN's webmaster, Kathy Horvath, via e-mail or at x7753 if you need to activate your account

Help with your veritas web account

All web-related questions (e-mails or phone calls) are to go first to your departmental webmaster, then to the IUN webmaster. On-line help and reference information is available at http://webmaster.indiana.edu/.

IU Northwest Web Design Guidelines for pages must be followed for professional account pages.

To check your disk space on Veritas

Use SSH telnet to connect to your veritas.ucs.indiana.edu account

Type your Veritas (web account) password when requested.
Please note: Veritas accounts will lock after 10 wrong passwords

In Veritas, type the command du -sk in your login directory to see how much disk space you are using.

To see how much space each file on your account takes, at the Unix prompt, enter: ls -l

Accounts on www.indiana.edu are allocated 100MB of disk storage space. Additional 100MB blocks are available for $100.00 per year. There is no quota (although you will be billed if you exceed your allotted space). See the Knowledge base document indicating the disk space available to academic departments, approved professional organizations, or registered student groups on veritas.

Additional information is available for checking your disk space on veritas.

Changing your Web Account Password

Note:Changing the password for your Professional Web account, which is a Veritas Account (professional Web Pages) must be done directly in Veritas. Only the Network ID for the web account is changed in the Account Management Password Maintenance.

Use SSH telnet to your vertas.ucs.indiana.edu account

Type your Veritas (web account) password when requested:

Please note:  Veritas accounts will lock after 10 wrong passwords

To change your password, at the prompt type passwd. The system will prompt you for your old password, ask for a new password, and ask that you repeat your new password to verify it. You should choose a password of at least eight characters, two of which must be non-alphabetic characters. Unix is case sensitive and UITS recommends that you use lowercase characters. This command will only change the password on the veritas system

type quit to exit the system

Go to Password Maintenance Page and change the passwords for the Network ID, Steel, and Shakespeare Accounts associated with the web account name.

Additional information on Changing Your IUN Web Account Password can be found at http://kb.indiana.edu

If you have trouble with your web password, contact the IUN webmaster, Kathy Horvath, at 980-7753