New Research Staff

When a new member is added to the CCN Lab research team, there are a few tasks that will need to be taken care of by lab administrators and by the new team member. This list is intended to prevent things from being overlooked.

Computer Access

Administrator

Create a new user profile on each computer to which the team member will require access. This can be done using the GUI or using the command line:

sudo useradd -d /home/newmembername -m newmembername
sudo passwd newmembername

Where newmembername is something intuitive, like the new member's first name. The above commands will add the user to the system, simultaneously creating their home directory, and then prompting the creation of a password. If the new member is present when you do this, have them enter a strong password they can remember, such as their UBIT password. Otherwise, come up with something you can pass along to them later on.

New Member

If the new lab member did not generate their own password, they should do so at their earliest convenience. This can be done by logging in using whatever password they were provided, then launching the System Settings application from the task bar, selecting User Accounts, and clicking on their username to set a new password.

Once an account has been set up on at least one lab computer, research staff wishing to be able to carry out some tasks remotely should consult the lab wiki entry for SSH.

Network Folder Access

Administrator

Submit a CASet work order to ask that the staff member be granted full access to the UBFS folder, as in the sample request below:

Can you please grant read/write access to:
 ubfs1/caset/cpmcnorg
for the following UBIT ID:
UBIT_username
Thanks,
Chris