Obtaining CS Computer Accounts

How do you start off?  First, fill out a CS UNIX/Windows Account Request Form.  You can pick one up from Debbie in NEB 224, or outside the Computing Services office (NEB B32 in the basement of NEB) or outside of NEB226 (near the CS Ugrad Lab).

You can also download a copy of the CS UNIX/Windows Account Request Form from our forms page, http://www.cs.jhu.edu/forms.

Please fill out the CS UNIX/Windows Account Request Form COMPLETELY, get any appropriate signatures, and then, you sign BOTH sides.

Additionally, make sure you list your JHU-assigned JHEM e-mail address on the account form. Many of our CS mailing lists use that account. There is a section for Preferred E-mail Address and another one for Permanent Email Address. We encourage you to forward your CS account (and perhaps your JHEM account) to your Preferred or Permanent-mail Address.

Under “Local Address”, please list your local resident address while attending JHU, as well as your home address (when you’re not attending JHU.)

You can hand in the completed form to Debbie in NEB 224.

Once the form is handed in, it will be sent to CS IT support, and Steve DeBlasio will contact you via one of the e-mail addresses you list on your form.

BE AWARE: If you use gmail, make sure you check your Junk folder. Gmail likes to file some e-mails from CS into Gmail Junk folders.

Grad Student, Faculty, Staff, Researchers, or Postdoc CS Computer Accounts

On the CS UNIX/Windows Account Request Form, if you're a grad student or faculty, staff, researcher or postoc, please make sure you've checked off that you want a Unix Grad account, which will supply you with your CS e-mail address and an account to access the Grad/Research Net Linux (and Solaris) computers that are supported by CS IT (including the Linux computers in the Masters’ Office).

As a CS Grad student or faculty member, you are entitled to a Unix Ugrad Net Linux account as well, especially if you are teaching or TA'ing a CS Undergrad Course, so please check off Ugrad Unix as well. You'll probably need a Ugrad account sooner or later. Please remember, though, your CS Grad/Research account is your primary account (email, webpage, etc.) And the Undergrad Net machines are subject to disk quotas.

Undergrad Student Accounts

If you are an CS Undergraduate student, you will probably need a CS Undergrad Account to access the Undergrad Net Linux and Windows boxes computers.

On the CS UNIX/Windows Account Request Form, check off Unix Ugrad, and if you need a Windows account, check that off as well.

You may apply for whichever accounts you need (Grad Unix, Ugrad Unix, Windows) when you apply for your Grad Unix account.

If you already have a Grad Unix account, and then later, need a Ugrad Unix or Windows account, or both) please fill out the form again indicating which other accounts you need, and make a note along the top of the form that you already have a Grad Unix account, and what the Grad Unix account name is.

If you are a Concurrent (grad/ugrad at the same time) CS student or were a CS Ugrad Unix user before and are now in the grad program, please contact support@cs.jhu.edu to discuss how to transition to a Grad Unix account, if desired.

You will be contacted (probably via e-mail to one of the e-mail addresses you listed on the form) by Steve DeBlasio, after your account is created, with instructions for pick-up. Please allow at two business days for your account to be created. You'll meet with Steve in NEB 226 to pick up your account during his posted office hours.. Please bring your J-Card or other form of picture ID. If you plan to access the Ugrad Lab/CS Collaboration room, you will need to have your J-Card registered into our system.