Accounts

Accounts & Policies

Accounts

• UnityID
• Temporary Accts
  • NoPay
  • Nomad
  • Workshop
• MySQL

Policies

• NC State
• ECE Dept

Split into subpages, and combine in the Policy page links.

UnityID

Please visit http://itd.ncsu.edu for official documentation.

Format

Your Unity ID has 8 or fewer characters and is automatically generated from your name in a two-step procedure:

1. A string of letters is created using the initials of your first and middle names and the first six letters of your last name, all in lower case.
2. If this string matches one previously created for someone else, the last letter will be replaced with or followed by a numeral. Here are some examples:
   • George William Abernathy's would be "gwaberna."
   • Mary Jones Smith's Unity ID would be "mjsmith."
   • Melissa Jane Smith's would be "mjsmith2" because of the duplicated letters.

If you don't know your Unity ID, it may be frustrating or time-consuming to try guessing it, since it might contain a numeral. Contact the NC State Help Desk during normal business hours if you need help determining it.

Usage

Using your Unity ID together with your password, you can:

• Access your campus-based email.
• Access any workstation in a Unity or Eos lab.
• Manage files in your personal AFS file space.
• Access certain NC State web pages that are not available to the public.
• Access the Pack Tracks system (http://www.ncsu.edu/registrar/) to register for classes, review your class schedules and waitlist status, view your transcript and make address changes.
• Read articles on electronic reserve through Library Services (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu).
• Turn in homework electronically using tools such as WebAssign.

Change Password

Once I've come up with a new password, how do I replace my old one? You can change your Unity password online by filling out and submitting the form found at https://sysnews.ncsu.edu/passwd/.

It may take up to one hour after you change your password for the new one to take effect. If you log in and your new password does not work, try the old one. Being logged in under the old password will not keep the new one from becoming active.

Deactivation

Student accounts are deactivated on census day (the last day of drop-add) of the first semester that a student is not registered. When an account is deactivated, no one will be able to log in with that userid or have access to files stored under it.

So if you graduated during the Fall semester, expect your account to be disabled near the end of the following Febuary; if you graduated in Spring (or Summer), expect it to be disabled late September.

Accounts are deleted one year after account deactivation.

Extended access for newly graduated students

Computing Services will extend recent graduates' access to their e-mail and Unity/Eos file space for four months after graduation. This policy is being offered as a courtesy to help the many students who use e-mail and Web resumes as part of their job search and career planning strategies. While recent graduates will not be able to login to public workstations in campus computing facilities (such as Unity labs), after graduation they will be able access e-mail and file space remotely; Web pages on the www4.ncsu.edu server will remain accessible via the Internet while accounts are active.

Temporary Accounts

We will not permanently register a machine for someone who will only be here a short while. In these cases, a guest NOMAD account is provided to the individual. This allows non-NCSU personnel to access the NCSU Wireless network. As most laptops are now equipped with wireless cards, this covers most scenarios.

We have a form being created for this. For now, we request that an email be sent to ecehelp@ncsu.edu by the visitor's sponsor.

As a follow up to the guest NOMAD access: Within all classrooms and conference rooms we recommend the usage of a WIRED Nomad Wall port. It is possible to configure a wall port to act as a part of the NOMAD wireless network. As such, any laptop that plugs into this wall port will receive an IP from the NOMAD network, and require that someone login b/f network access is granted. Combined with guest NOMAD accounts provided by the college or department, this grants guests the ability to use wired network access in specific locations without the need to register their machine. It provides increased security for the University as we record the accesses of these guest NOMAD userids, remove the possibility of guests using any wall port they see, and as guest accounts are limited in their time frame (usually limited to a couple days or less upon creation) we can restrict the length of their access to the NCSU network.

NoPay Accounts

Making Guests Permanent -- NoPay NCSU Accounts

NCSU has the ability (once again this is at the departmental/unit level) to create Unity accounts for individuals that are associated with the University, but are neither students nor on payroll. These are referred to as NoPay accounts. It’s a slight complicated procedure, but basically, someone in the department vouches for an outsider to have access. Example: Tom Conte has some researchers at Intel that he works with. They require access to some of his systems/websites. Tom comes to me and requests that we extend a NoPay account to them. Assuming I agree (some basic usage/access questions are always asked), the outsider fills out a form we have for the purpose of collecting the HR information that is required. UnityID accounts are now COMPLETELY tied to the NCSU HR system -- one is not created without the person being entered into our HR systems.

FYI - This is not a good thing as it has increased the time to get a UnityID from 24hrs to 2 weeks, but that’s the way it is.

Our form: https://www.wolftech.ncsu.edu/requests/accounts/

NOMAD Accounts

Wireless AP that are not on the NOMAD network

While NC State does allow Non-NOMAD wireless on campus (http://www.ncsu.edu/it/rulesregs/wireless/implementation-rules.html), it does place this at the discretion of the academic unit (ie, college or department).

Frankly, this is not something we want to encourage. Outside of specific wireless research projects, all wireless at NC State should be on the NOMAD network. We'd end up with countless overlapping networks that just confuse both the IT people (who inevitably end up having to fix it) and the students who *see* the network. Add the fact that most people have no clue what they're doing, especially when it comes to SECURING a wireless network (which by the way, generally doesn't happen)... Cheap wireless APs also have a tendency to get hacked...

Should the private wireless network in ANY WAY affect a nearby/overlapping NOMAD network, it will be removed by central IT.

MySQL Account

Creation

Databases are created for projects on an as-needed basis. To request, send email to <a href="ece-webmaster@ncsu.edu">ece-webmaster@ncsu.edu</a>. You will need to include:

1. Name of the project.
2. Names and Unity IDs of project participants.
3. Names and Unity IDs of those who will have access to the database (if different from 3.)
4. How project relates to ECE.

Format

All databases are assigned three username/password combinations with the following attributes:

<database name>-rd : SELECT
    Use in code when page will be used only to retrieve information from database.
<database name>-wrt : SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
    Use in code when page will be used to make changes to database.
<database name>-adm : SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, ALTER, INDEX, DROP
    Use only for logging into PHPMyAdmin to set-up database structure. NEVER USE IN CODE.

Deactivation

Administrative (-adm) accounts are deactivated upon completion of the project. Read (-rd) and write (-wrt) accounts may remain active as long as use for the completed project demands.