Unix Account Information

CSE Computer Account Information

• CSE Computer Account registration is now available online. You may register for a new account by logging in as register with a password of register on any of the systems located in SE 319. If you are a FEEDS student, you can register for an account by using telnet and connecting to reality.cse.fau.edu and logging in as specified above. If you wish to register over the web, you can click here to access our Java Based telnet/ssh client from which you can login as specified earlier.
• You may pick up your accounts after two days in SE 412 between 9am and 5pm, M-F. We do not give out passwords over the phone or email. Please be sure to have some form of photo identification when you pick up your account information.
• If you are a FEEDS student, please mention this in the comments section and make sure you have a FAX number specified on the account registration and we will FAX the account information to you. Alternatively, you can tell us to give it to the FEEDS office in the comments section and we will send your account information via the FEEDS office.
• If you are a Davie Campus student, Please be sure to mention this in the comments section of the account registration AND the name of your professor so that we can deliver the account information to your professor.
• If you are unable to pick up your account, we will fax you a copy of your account information. Please FAX us a copy of your student id or drivers license along with your full name, student id number, phone number and fax number where we can fax the information back. You will receive your account information within 1 working day.

CSE Computer Account Policy

• All CSE undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for a UNIX account during their stay at FAU. However, if a student does not register for any courses for two semesters in a row, their accounts may be removed in order to reclaim disk resources for incoming students.
• CSE UNIX Accounts are given out only to FAU students who are registered in a CSE course. Non CSE students will be given a semester account which will be removed at the end of the semester. If you signup for another CSE course in the next semester, you will need to re-register for a UNIX account. Requests for extensions of semester accounts must approved by the professor of the course.
• Faculty or Staff working on research projects with CSE faculty are eligible for sponsored UNIX accounts. Please check with your CSE faculty sponsor for further information.
• Accounts that are scheduled to be removed will be given two weeks notice via email before they are expired.
• Please email sysadm@cse.fau.edu for any account questions such as:
  • Switching accounts from temporary semester accounts to permanent (grad or ugrad) accounts once you have been accepted into the CSE graduate or undergraduate program.
  • Changing your full name.
  • Increasing disk quota.
  • Restoring deleted files (this is done as a courtesy and is not guaranteed due to limited backup resources).

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering reserves the right to access without prior notice any user account under its administration. Users who abuse the privilege of this system and whose actions are deemed by the Department to be in violation of the ACM Computer Code of Ethics ("Communications of the ACM", May 1992, pgs 94-99) or the Florida Atlantic University Code of Computing Practice or the IRM Network Computing Policy will have their accounts immediately and permanently terminated. For more information, please see the CSE Computer Ethics page.