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Professional Web Accounts

• Faculty and staff are to request the professional personal account from their departmental webmaster. A list of IU Northwest Webmasters is located on the IU Northwest Website Information page. An active e-mail account is needed before requesting an account.
• Departmental webmasters request the professional personal web account from IU Northwest webmaster, Kathy Horvath, via e-mail request. The departmental webmaster will create the anticipated account name with the first three initials of the departmental web and the first, middle and last initial of the person's name (an account name will be 6 characters). The e-mail request for a professional web account should contain the following:
  • person's name
  • campus address
  • campus phone number
  • person's active iun.edu e-mail address
  • person's anticipated account name (created as stated above).

Since the webmaster will be the sponsor of the account, the same information is also needed for the webmaster.

• It will take 3 business days for Bloomington to process the account. The requestor and the departmental webmaster will receive an e-mail with password information. Be sure to print the information since you only see the password information once for security reasons.
• Once the person is no longer affiliated with the university, they give up rights to owning the account. However, the person will be given two weeks to remove any files from the account. Departmental Webmasters must notify the main IU Northwest webmaster via e-mail with the person's name, department and web account name so that the account may be deleted.
• Departmental e-mail accounts are available for all IU Northwest Webserve web accounts. Contact IUN's webmaster, Kathy Horvath, via e-mail or at x7753 if you need to activate your account

Moving of Webserve Websites to new server

The web accounts now hosted on Webserve are being migrated to a new server. Migration News gives all notices pertaining to the migration to new servers.

With the migration,

• WebShare will be known as SiteShare
• Veritas will be known as WebServe

With the new server, there will be two ways to log into to upload / download your web files.

• Login to SiteShare using your personal username and Network-ID
• Login to WebServe using the Network-ID of the web account

A web account use to have two passwords, one for the Network-ID and the other for sftp. The web account Network-ID was also used if the web account had e-mail sent to the account. The sftp password was used to log into the Webserve account. Since we use SiteShare, all users have been using SiteShare to access the website instead of using sftp.

With the new servers, the sftp password will be removed. Access to the web account will be through SiteShare (formerly WebShare). If creating forms, login to the web account will need the web account Network-ID in pass phrase format.

Help with your Webserve web account

• All web-related questions (e-mails or phone calls) are to go first to your departmental webmaster, then to the IU Northwest webmaster. On-line help and reference information is available at http://webmaster.indiana.edu/.
• IU Northwest Web Design Guidelines for pages must be followed for professional account pages.

To check your disk space on Webserve

• Use PuTTY telnet to connect to your Webserve.ucs.indiana.edu account
• Type your Webserve (web account) password when requested.
• Please note: Webserve accounts will lock after 10 wrong passwords
• In Webserve, type the command du -sk in your login directory to see how much disk space you are using.
• To see how much space each file on your account takes, at the Unix prompt, enter: ls -l
• Accounts on www.indiana.edu are allocated one gigabyte of disk storage space. A nominal fee of $4 per gigabyte per year will be charged for accounts that exceed this amount when averaged over the fiscal year. There is no quota (although you will be billed if you exceed your allotted space). See the Knowledge base document indicating the disk space available to academic departments, approved professional organizations, or registered student groups on Webserve.
• Additional information is available for checking your disk space on Webserve.

Changing your Web Account Password

Note:Changing the password for your Professional Web account, which is a Webserve Account (professional Web Pages) must be done directly in Webserve. Only the Network ID for the web account is changed in the Account Management Password Maintenance.

• Use PuTTY telnet to your Webserve.iu.edu account
• Type your Webserve (web account) password when requested:
• Please note:  Webserve accounts will lock after 10 wrong passwords
• To change your password, at the prompt type passwd. The system will prompt you for your old password, ask for a new password, and ask that you repeat your new password to verify it. You should choose a password of at least eight characters, two of which must be non-alphabetic characters. Unix is case sensitive and UITS recommends that you use lowercase characters. This command will only change the password on the Webserve system
• type quit to exit the system
• Go to Password Maintenance Page and change the passwords for the Network ID, Mercury, and Shakespeare Accounts associated with the web account name.
• Additional information on Changing Your IUB Web Account Password page

If you have trouble with your web password, contact the IU Northwest webmaster, Kathy Horvath, at 980-7753

Web Account Maintenance

Network ID Services Main Menu

You may use PuTTY and / or WinSCP (SFTP) Transfer Client for ftp access to the Webserve server (professional web server). You must use WinSCP (SFTP) client to transfer files to mercury (personal web pages - mypage.iu.edu). Telnet to either Webserve or Mercury using WinSCP (SFTP) Client.