February 04, 2009 -- Self Account Creation is no longer available

Citing a recently discovered security vulnerability, ITS has turned off all access to the Self Account Creation system.

This is the system most students use to create accounts on ECES and is one way of changing your ECES passwords.

All indications are that the deactivation of SAC is permanent.

Look for new account creation procedures here:

Create an Account

And new password change procedures here:

Changing your password on ECES

Welcome back for Spring 2009!

Just a few notices:

Power Saving

We have setup many of the lab computers to go to Standby mode after 45 minutes of inactivity.

To wake a computer in Standby mode, simply press a button on the keyboard.

If that fails, you can press the power button on the computer to wake it up.

If that fails, it is probably not in Standby. Try turning it on and/or plugging it in -- not in that order.

Broken Equipment

Please report all broken equipment.

Please DO NOT attempt to fix broken equipment yourself.

Please DO NOT trade the broken equipment at your lab bench for working equipment at some other lab bench.

Report broken equipment to:

1. ecehelp@colorado.edu

2. Wayne Gardner

3. Matt Lessem

4. Anyone hanging out in ECEE 1B10A (behind E-Stores)

Thanks.

Have a good semester.

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The ECES Student Server is a Unix computer owned and operated by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The ECES Student Server is generally accessed in two ways:

As a Windows Server From Within ECE Computer Labs
ECES is the Primary Domain Controller for the Windows 2000 computers in the ECE computer labs. This means it validates logins and passwords to allow users to login to the client computers in the labs, and it hosts users' home directories, the Z: drive, on the client computers.

As a Unix Server From Anywhere
ECES is accessible from anywhere on the internet, including the ECE computer labs, as eces.colorado.edu. As a Unix server, eces.colorado.edu is accessilbe via SSH. File transfers can be performed via SCP. E-mail services are available via IMAP SSL and POP SSL or on the web at eces.colorado.edu/webmail. And, as evidenced by this page, you can access ECES web pages at eces.colorado.edu.

Anyone currently registered for a course which requires use of an ECE computer lab must obtain an ECES account.

An ECES account login and password is required to access any computer in an ECE computer lab. Your ECES account will also provide you with a place to store data while working in the ECE computer labs and will provide you with access to this data from inside and outside of the labs.

An ECES account login and password is also required to access the computers in the ECE Student Resource Center.

University of Colorado Undergraduates majoring in ECE, graduate students in the ECE Department, and ECE Faculty are all elligible to maintain an account on the ECES Student Server for the duration of their affiliation with the department.

Additionally, any students registered for a CU or CU Continuing Education course requiring them to use an ECE computer lab are eligible to maintain an account on the ECES Student Server for the durration of their enrollment in that course.

If you are an ECE undergraduate or graduate student or are currently registered for a course which uses an ECE computer lab, please refer to the ECES Policies page and the Getting Started page to find out about creating and using your ECES account.