Accounts

All computer accounts must be authorized by a graphics lab faculty member.

Opening an account

To request an account on the Graphics Cluster machines, send mail to support at graphics.stanford.edu indicating your sponsor and showing your SUNet userid attributes.

These attributes can be obtained by logging into cardinal.stanford.edu and using "getent" from the command line, e.g. for a SUNet user 'descartes',
getent passwd descartes.

Your graphics account will be created from your SUNetID, but with a separate password. Once you have an account, you will be able to log into any of the public Unix or Windows machines in the Graphics Cluster.

Changing your password

Passwords cannot be updated via the default mechanisms of Linux, however, one can ssh to "blit" and use kpasswd.

From on-campus Windows machines in EE domain, you can use the normal Windows dialogs for changing a password..

Web updates can be submitted from on-campus using the password update dialog.

Account Renewal

Accounts are subject to annual renewal each June by the faculty. Each May, a reminder e-mail with instructions on how to request a renewal will be sent to each account holder. You need not respond if you no longer need an account, and if you don't respond, your account will automatically expire on June 15 and be completely deleted.