To obtain a Computer Science & Engineering Computing Account, please refer to the Obtaining an Account section.

Accounts become disabled for various reaons - the most common being detection of weak passwords and exceeded disk space and/or e-mail quotas. If your account has been disabled, you will need to contact a system administrator to have your account reactivated. Insofar as disk space and quotas, each user has a specific amount of space for files and email. If, at any time, this limit is exceeded, a warning is issued automatically by the server and you are given a specific amount of time to correct the problem. If you fail to do so, your account becomes disabled. At that point you will need to contact a system administrator to have your account fixed. Typically this is done by raising your quota at long enough for you to remove/compress some files or e-mail. If you find you require an increased quota, please submit a request for it to a system administrator.

This can occur for any of the following reasons:

• You do not have a computing account
• You are entering an incorrect username and/or password
• Your account has been disabled
• The server is down

Sometimes a server will crash, making it inaccessible. Since the network servers are highly interconnected, this may cause other servers to crash, temporarily disabling the entire network. The only way to fix a server that is down is to notify a system administrator of the problem.

This situation occurs when a user exceeds their disk and/or e-mail quota. You should contact a system administrator to assist you in removing/compressing some files or e-mail to regain access to your account.