Grad Student Accounts
Here we discuss the various accounts Grad students may get, attempting to demonstrate
what happens automatically, and what manual supplementary information may be required.
Required authorization
- Users who need to update accounts need to be in group "sponsor" and group "accounts" on cs-xh-admin.cs.private.uwaterloo.ca
- That is, in those groups in the CS-GENERAL AD
- Users who need to manipulate accounts, for example set passwords, in the cs-general region to be in the "accounts" group on cs-general.cs.private. Similarly for any other region.
Location of Accounts Sponsor files
The accounts files for CS are on the UNIX computer
cs-xh-admin.cs.private.uwaterloo.ca
cd /software/accounts-master/data/sponsors
| Directory/File Name | Purpose |
|---|
| Research/
|
|---|
Research/ | files under Research correspond to an individual researcher or research group.
Here resources,
or extra resources, for users specifically
affiliated with particular researchers can be sponsored.
These might be extra disk space (or theoretically printing) for a grad student, or entire accounts for associated or visiting researchers. |
| REGISTRAR/ |
|---|
REGISTRAR/ | files under REGISTRAR "automatically" sponsor resources, based on data received from the registrar's office |
REGISTRAR/.DATA/ | Don't touch! The accounts-master computer program uses information from the Registrar to put, beneath this directory, lists of students in different classes |
REGISTRAR/Grads | base resources for Masters and PhD students |
REGISTRAR/Undergrads | base resources for undergraduate students |
REGISTRAR/cs | resources linked to enrolment in CS courses |
REGISTRAR/se | resources linked to enrolment in SE courses |
| REGISTRAR-YYYYMM/ |
|---|
REGISTRAR-YYYYMM/ | Files under REGISTRAR-YYYYMM, e.g. REGISTRAR-201001 implement the predictable long-term expiry of sponsored resources by freezing the indicated previous terms class (program/year) memberships.
Another file there ensures any account created stays until after the drop-add deadline.
Occasionally (usually only in fall terms) you will see REGISTRAR-YYYYMMext directories. Read the file .README in such a directory for an explanation of its purpose and how it was created. |
The uwuserid and student id number of all
graduate students are automatically placed
the files named
cs8 (Masters) and
cs9 (PhDs) beneath
REGISTRAR/.DATA.
This triggers the allocation of
primary accounts for graduate students in the
cs-general
region.
Graduate students will receive other accounts in the
student.cs
region
based on the similar
appearance of their uwuserid and student id number
in files corresponding to individual courses.
For example,
grad student identification might appear in a file
cs798, or
cs648, and occasionally even one such as
cs350.
For more details see
UndergraduateAccounts since the sponsorship mechanism is similar in those cases.
In addition,
supervisors often want to sponsor other accounts on their own research regions,
and occasionally sponsor extra resources in the
cs-general region.
All such extra
sponsorship requires manual configuration to supplement the automatic
allocations.
It is fairly common for supervisors to request sponsored (UNIX)
group
memberships for their students, to allow groups of their graduate
students to share information with each other.
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AdrianPepper - 2014-08-14
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