Department of Computer Science: Undergraduate Account Policies

Undergraduate Account Policies

This policy document governs the use of the computing facilities made available to CS Undergraduates and applies in addition to the standard CS Department Acceptable Use Policy.

Dialup Access: You may access these machines from off campus by using the ITaP RESNET facilities or through a commercial ISP.
Lab Access: The workstations in CS instructional labs will be available for use during open lab hours. Remote access to UNIX/Linux workstations via SSH is allowed at all times.
Disk Space: We don't use electronically enforced disk quotas. We would ask that you try to keep your disk usage below 100 megabytes. If space becomes short on a disk partition, we will take several steps to make more space available. Steps include shuffling home directories between partitions, notifying heavy users, and deleting user files. If you are asked to reduce your disk use, you must or files will be deleted for you.
Games and Other Non-Academic Use: Be reasonable. If you're not affecting anyone, no one will care. If you are affecting anyone, we will do what is necessary to make sure you stop, including freezing your account.
Food: Food or drinks are not permitted in the workstation labs at any time.
Account Use: You must not allow others to use your account. Giving others your password, adding them to your .rhosts/.shosts/authorized_keys file, logging them into the workstation next to you, or any other form of account sharing can result in the loss of your account.
Printing: Please keep printing to a minimum -- to help reduce monetary costs to the department and the environmental impact. Use on-line previewers (xdvi, gv, xpdf, Adobe reader, etc), and print text files "two up" and duplexed.
Backups and Restores: To guard against the effects of disk failures, all user files are backed up according to the backup schedule. If you inadvertently delete a file, it may be possible to restore it. Submit restore requests through the trouble web form (see below) or email to operator@cs.purdue.edu.
Reporting Problems: Use the trouble web form by following the "Trouble or Request" link on our Help page (http://www.cs.purdue.edu/help/)

Violation of these policies will result in your account and the files within being frozen for one or more days.

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