Getting an account

For our SEECS collaborators, it's a 2 step process.

1. You have to be registered as a SLAC user. To do this go to https://oraweb4.slac.stanford.edu/apex/epnprod/f?p=134
   • The experiment is COMPUTING
   • You are NOT a SLAC employee, use your home institution as your employer.
   • Your work type is computing. SLAC will not be paying you. You will be using SLAC computing resources.
   • Your Activity Status is User (NOT Associate).
   • The experiment is Computing. Les Cottrell is your sponsor. Your SLAC group department is SCCS
   • You are probably at first not physically working at SLAC for any amount of time.
   • You are not a summer intern/rotation
   • Please be careful to use the recommended  date format dd-mon-yyyy.
   • this will get you a SLAC ID. It may take a couple work days.
2. Once you have a SLAC ID then you will be able to apply for a SLAC computer account.For this you will need to go to http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/comp/slacwide/account/account.html Fill out these forms, sign them, and FAX to the attention of Les Cottrell at +1-650-926-3329, or scan and email to cottrell@slac.stanford.edu.
   • Unless you want to have emails in 2 boxes (SLAC and say SEECS or gmail), I would not request a SLAC email box unless you are at SLAC.
   • Just request a Unix and Windows account
   • Scan the form and email to cottrell@slac.stanford.edu. He will fill in the authorization section
3. Once you have an account you will need to know the userid and password. We will get these to you. You will need to change the password. This is done by ssh'ing to rhel6-64.slac.stanford.edu (a cluster of Linux interactive hosts) and issuing the password (not passwd) command. Please let us know when you have changed the password. The resetting of UNIX passwords will take up to 1 hour to take effect. The password must be >= 8 characters and include characters from three of the following sets: upper case, lower case, digits, and special characters. To ensure any email sent to your SLAC account goes to the right place, enter a .forward file (Google Unix .forward). We will be requesting the Unix group to enable you to logon to  pinger but that will take some delay. You will probably need some privileges to access/write to various places. This will become more apparent as you get going. You may find Access priviledges of some use, however it is meant for iepm admins rather than iepm users.
4. Please refer to Use of SLAC Information Resource. More detailed policy and security information can be located here Under no circumstances should you attempt to log on to another user's account unless you have been given permission to use the account by your Group Leader or Account Czar. If you have questions then post to the maggie mailing list.
5. Kindly fill this form to get IEPM Wiki write access. The group name is "IEPM": https://jira.slac.stanford.edu/signup/