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-====== Obtain an Account in our Cluster ======
-===== Policy =====
-Without an account, you (the user) can't connet to our network, to our servers and to Internet. Even if you are located to the other end of the world and need to access our server for just 1 times, you need an account.
-Receiving an account means that the systems (the whole computers connected to our network) has a method to recognized you and let you login.
-This also means that your account (login/password couple) are extremely importat and you have to take care of this.
-<note>
-**Account are created when requested by a Staff member**. These accounts are not kept beyond the end of a project (with 2 month grace).
-</note>
-**To create an Account the System Administrators needs to know at least:**
-<box round blue 80%>
-  * Name and Surname of the User
-  * Email address (messages from the Sys Admins will be sent to this address)
-  * Office where the User is located (or Institute from wich the user is connecting)
-  * Lab Affiliation (**ALGO, INRI, LCM, LICOS, LTHC, LTHI**)
-  * The user needs a workstation ?
-  * Type of Account requested
-    * Wired Connection (his/hers workstation is connected to the Local Network by wire)
-    * Wired Connection for personal laptop
-    * Wireless connection for the network **epfl**
-    * Wireless connection for the network **public-epfl**
-</box>
-===== Wired Connection =====
-After the creation of the account, the user will receive his/hers **login** and **password** couple. The login remain fix until the deletion, but the **password must changed at the first login** and changed sometime.\\
-Avoid weak password as
-  * Name of Cats, Dogs, Fishes, Turtles, Iguanas, Parrots, Sex Toys (of whatsoever nature) and so on
-  * Name of Parents, Sons or other relatives, even in combined forms
-  * Name of Gods or other Divinities
-  * **names with a number after or before it**
-  * Dates of Birth, Death, Anniversary of anyone or anything
-  * Fiscal Code and similarities
-  * Name of Singers, Actors and **Actress**, even in palindrome forms
-  * Vocabulary words
-  * sequence of pure numbers
-<note tip>
-A good password contain at least 8 chars and has a "melange" of letters, Capital Letters, number and other chars as in this example: qy7hM462, or 24xi31iQ.
-</note>
-<note warning>
-**Why it's so important ?**\\
-Your password can be used to access our network from anywhere in the world, so if someone stole your passord hi/her has complete access to our servers. One single weak password means that all users using the local services are susceptibles to attack from hackers.\\
-Login and Password are the only thing to recognize the user from the computer point of view. Don't share your account with anyone and don't use weak password for your account.
-The passwords are periodically verified and the user that has a weak password is requested to change it.
-If you're requested to change your password from the System Administrator, please do this A.S.A.P.. **You can change your network password from anywhere in the world**, just connect to the server using a ssh protocol and use the passwd command.
-</note>
-===== Wireless Network "epfl" =====
-The account for this network are managed directly by the EPFL. The **epfl** wireless network is a facility available to all personnel of the EPFL ([[http://network.epfl.ch/libre-service/wifi/wl_maps.html|range of the repetitors]]) and, after request, even to visitors or invited Professors. The request for this kind of account take some time to be accomplished, so It's unuseful if the user is visiting for a limited amount of time.
-The login assigned cannot be changed, but Users can change their password and their mail address starting from [[https://gaspar.epfl.ch|here]].
-Once the User obtained the account hi/her must download and install the **EPFL** certificate from [[http://certauth.epfl.ch/CA/cacert.html|this page]] and can connect to the wireless network using these parameters
-  * ESSID: **epfl**
-  * Encryption: WPA or WPA-2
-  * Account: EPFL Login and Password
-<note tip>
-After the connection the users can connect to our network and use the local account to access servers or to [[printing:wireless:epfl|print]]. From the computer point of view connections of this type are generating from inside the EPFL, so all the computers are accessible. Only the local security controls will be performed.
-</note>
-===== Wireless Network "public-epfl" =====
-The wireless network **public-epfl** is an open network, accessible to everyone that has an antenna in the [[ http://network.epfl.ch/libre-service/wifi/wl_maps.html|range of the repetitors]], no encriptyion of data or low level authentication is performed. All the datas necessary for the low level connection are broadcasted and automatically recognized by all the modern Operating Systems.
-The users of wireless network **public-epfl** will receive a login and a password from the local Administrators that can't be changed. Account for this network can be used at most for 30 days. At the expiration the account is automatically deleted and the user must ask for another account.\\
-** In order to use this kind of connection, after obtaining the account, the users have to: **
-  - Connect to the network __public-epfl__
-  - Open the Web browser
-  - Insert the login/password in the two fields in the left of the web page
-  - Click the "I Agree" button
-If everything is correct, the user can have access to internet and can use most of the protocols disponibles.
-<note tip>
-Users of **public-epfl** can connect to our network and use the local account to access servers (via ssh) or to [[printing:wireless:public-epfl|print]]. For computers of our network, computer that try to connect from this network are coming from Internet, so only a limited number of server is directly accessible.
-</note>
-===== Configue your laptop =====
-At [[http://stephan.walter.name/WPA-EAP_authentication_at_EPFL|this]] page you can learn how to configure your laptop for connecting to the wireless **epfl** network.