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Question: I want to get a departmental account
on tigger, so my department can publish a Web page. But the ADN doesn't
give out departmental or shared accounts any more. What should I do?
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Answer: You're
right. We don't give out departmental accounts any more and we have never allowed
account sharing. But the good news is that you don't need a departmental account
to have a departmental home page!
The ADN Web servers and the files that they serve are on the ADN UNIX
machines; it is quite possible in UNIX to allow a personal account to work
with files that are not in that account's home directory. So if you want
to publish a Web page for your department or group, simply send a note
to www@uic.edu (or to consult@uic.edu
and the note will be routed), saying which department the page is for and
which individual accounts will need to access the Web files. We'll set
up a directory to hold the public files, and include the accounts in a
group with appropriate permissions to work in that directory.
You also might want a departmental account to have an email address that
represents your department or group as a whole, rather than a particular
person. In the new world of netids, there's no longer a one-to-one correspondence
between mail addresses and accounts; we can assign a secondary netid (just a
netid, not an account) to your department and arrange to have the mail sent
to that netid (at uic.edu) forwarded to whomever the department wants. That
person might want to use Eudora or procmail on ADN UNIX to separate their personal
mail from the departmental mail; procmail
was introduced in the September/October issue of The ADN Connection.
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