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Unix Account Request Form

If you are a webmaster here at the University of Ottawa, you can have access to any of the Unix servers available at CCS, by filling out the following form. By doing so, you will have :

• a Unix and a MySQL accounts (using the same name but different passwords)
  
• the MySQL Database
  
• an alias in the Apache server to point to your /var/www/html/http/<account> and /var/www/html/https/<account> for standard (http) and secure (https) pages respectively.

For convenience, links are created in the user's home directory pointing
to those location called http and https, i.e.
/home/<account>/http points to /var/www/html/http/<account>
and /home/<account>/https points to /var/www/html/https/<account>

Your MySQL account will have full access to the database to create, modify, delete, etc., as many tables as you wish.

You should not use any hostname in these html files, i.e., use all relative addressing.

Please fill out the form to obtain your unix account.

1. Owner (the person held accountable for the account)
Name
Position/title
Department
Phone Number
E-mail
2. Account owner's supervisor
Name
Title
Department
Phone Number
E-mail
3. Account name requested
Default is the same as on mailbox. Departmental accounts must be specified; departmental account should not be named after a person
4. Type of account
Choose a type of account	Select... Internal External
5. Category of account
Choose a category of account	Select... Personal Departmental Research Professor Sponsored
6. Access Rights Users to whom access should be given (if different then the owner, people who will use the account and have authority to request changes (passwords, databases, etc...)
For each: Name Title Department (name of organization if external) Telephone number Email address
7. What will the account be used for, what is the purpose of Web site (e.g. CCS Web site)?
Purpose
8. Database
Is a database required?	[Yes ] [ No ]
If yes, what is the requested database name (default is the same as the account name and if one is required (can be added later)
9. Protocol required
Protocol	Select... http https Both
10. Security level
a. any personal information being stored in database?	[Yes ] [ No ]
b. any confidential information being stored in database?	[Yes ] [ No ]
c. any credit card numbers being stored in database?	[Yes ] [ No ]
d. none of the above	[Yes ] [ No ]
11. Requested URL
(defaults URLs are in the form of http://web5.uottawa.ca/account for http and https://web5.uottawa.ca/account for https)	If you want to request for a specific URL please fill out the following form: http://www.ccs.uottawa.ca/webmaster/domain-request.html
All account request must be approved by your information provider.
12. Backup Disclaimer
Backups of these servers adhere to CCS' TSM backup policy for frequency and retention. Click here for details. The retrieval window for data lost due to human or application error may only be five days for frequently modified databases.

 

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