Student Account Tools

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Use account tools to:

Lookup Your Account Information

(Account Lookup Tool)

Use the Account Lookup Tool to find answers about your account(s):

  • What is your personal account name?
  • Does your account have OCE and/or course allocations?
  • How much disk space (quota) does your account have?
  • What is your weekly allocation of Computing Units?
  • Which computer hosts (facilities) will recognize your account?
  • If you have a connected Laser Printing Account, what is its balance?
  • What is the status of your account?

    Accounts may be suspended or closed for various reasons. There are recommended steps to prepare for account closing. The account status codes shown by the Lookup Tool are:
    OK - open and ready to use.
    isf - "insufficient funds": suspended because your weekly allocation of Computing Units has been exhausted.
    nrs - suspended because you were not found in the Registrar's roster.
    exp - suspended because the associated class ended or you are not enrolled.
    adm - suspended. Please contact the Accounts Office.
Account Lookup Tool


Change Or Replace Your Password

(ACS Global Password Change Tool)

If you know your old password OR your TritonLink PAC code you can use the this tool to change or replace your existing password on ACS supported computer systems (and optionally change your UCSD Network/Dialin Password). You will need to know your account name, e.g. jsmith, and your student PID, e.g. a01234567.

If you don't know your old password or your TritonLink PAC code, you should visit the Accounts Office with your student ID card to obtain a new password.

ACS Global Password Change Tool

Check Or Change the Destination Of Your @UCSD E-mail Address

You can set the delivery destination specified for your "@UCSD" e-mail to any e-mail address where you currently have e-mail service, on or off campus.

Here's a list showing the default mailhosts that ACS initially uses to set up each account type.

Check Or Change the Destination Of Your @UCSD E-mail Address.


Register For An ACS Personal Account

(ACSREG)

Accounts are created automatically for most new undergraduate students prior to orientation. Typically students receive an Enrollment Appointment Notice at college orientation which includes their computer account name, password and mail server host. If you do not have your account information you can use the Account Lookup Tool, above, to find out if an account has already been established for you.

Students who are currently enrolled and who did not receive an account automatically (particularly graduate students) can apply for an ACS account using the ACSREG mechanism described below. However, it should be noted that some departments either choose to, or are responsible for providing the primary computing support (e.g. E-mail service) to their own graduate students. If you are a graduate student, it would be advisable to check with your department before applying for an ACS account.

One service that is available to all general-campus students is login access to the Windows PC computers managed by ACS in locations such as UCSD libraries. All students are eligible to use ACSREG to obtain an account for that purpose.

ACSREG


Check the Size Of Your Mailbox, Move E-mail Out Of Your Mailbox

(Mail Information and Management Tool)

Every mailbox has a limit to the size of messages which it can contain at any one time. If you suddenly stop receiving meessages, use this utility to check whether you have passed that limit. The utility also provides a way to alleviate your mail problems by getting rid of old messages, either deleting them or moving them out of your mailbox.

Mail Information and Management Tool


Setup a Mail Filter

(Mail Filter Utility)

This utility allows you to sort mail based parameters which help identify and isolate spam and other junk mail.

Mail Filter Utility


Set Up Your Personal Web Site

(Home Page Setup Tool)

Use this tool to create the directory "public_html" to hold your Web files, it also sets permissions to allow your Web files to be accessed.

For more advanced information about setting up a web page, go to "Making Documents Available to the World Wide Web".

Home Page Setup Tool


Copying Your Home Directories

(cphome)

The cphome command allows a student with an OCE-type account to copy her or his entire home directory from one ACS server to another.

cphome Tool