AFS Policies

New Accounts

Apply for an AFS account.

Account Removal

AFS accounts are removed approximately 30 days into the first Fall or Spring semester that the account owner is no longer associated with NJIT.

NJIT alumni/ae are entitled to a ucid@njit.edu email account. However, their AFS account is removed as noted above.

Upon AFS account removal :
- The user's AFS account is archived to tape and then physically removed from the system; the archive is accessible for up to 12 months after account deletion.
- The user cannot log in to any AFS machine using his/her UCID
- The user's Website ( http://web.njit.edu/~<ucid> ) is no longer valid
- The email address <ucid>@oak.njit.edu is no longer valid.
- Upon the AFS account being disabled, any mail in the user's oak email account is copied to their <ucid>@njit.edu account, and mail sent to <ucid>@oak.njit.edu is automatically forwarded to <ucid>@njit.edu
NOTE 1: The removal of an AFS account does not affect the <ucid>@njit.edu email-for-life address - that address remains valid and in effect. (Some users know this address as http://webmail.njit.edu). AFS account removal also does not affect access to Highlander Pipeline (http://my.njit.edu).
AFS Account Deletion Schedule
- The user is notified by email to <ucid>@njit.edu that his/her account will be be disabled approximately 14 days from the date of the email.
- That account is then archived and removed approximately 28 days from the date of the email.
- Users should make their own arrangements to copy data out of their AFS account before it is disabled.
NOTE 2: Users whose AFS accounts have been removed, and who subsequently return to NJIT, must apply for a new AFS account. If the user wants access to the contents of his/her previous AFS account, please send that request to ucs@njit.edu. Such requests made more than one year after account removal cannot be honored.

Research Guest Accounts

The student's research advisor should send mail to ucs@njit.edu, requesting extended AFS access for the student. The student will then be assigned a research guest account (resrch<nm>).
A research guest account is functionally identical to a regular AFS account.
The contents of the student's AFS account will be copied into the research guest account as soon as the student's AFS account has been disabled; the student's AFS account will be removed as scheduled.
Web pages that had been served from the original account can be served from the research guest account (but with a URL corresponding to the assigned research guest account).
A research guest account expires one year after it is assigned; it can renewed yearly upon a request from the advisor to ucs@njit.edu, specifying the period for which the account should be extended.

Guest Accounts

AFS guest accounts are available for special, short-term purposes. Only NJIT faculty and staff can request guest accounts. To do so, send mail to ucs@njit.edu with full particulars.

Clients

All machines managed by UCS are AFS clients. AFS is the central file system at NJIT, with about several TB of disk space. In addition to giving users the same filespace independent of which AFS client the user is logged into, AFS allows the central management -- including making available a broad spectrum of software applications -- of over a thousand machines. UCS is dependent on this centralization to fulfill its management responsibilities; it does not have the resources to manage machines on an individual basis.

Disk Quota

Additional Disk Quota for Research

Faculty with on-going research projects may request space in AFS for those projects. This space is assigned in the /afs/cad/research area. Please send such requests to ucs@njit.edu.

Additional Disk Quota for Projects

Additional AFS disk quota for projects -- typically master's and PhD work -- is provided for by a "project directory", which should be requested by the student's advisor or instructor via mail to ucs@njit.edu The advisor or instructor should specify the student's AFS account and disk quota needed.

The AFS quota for a student's login directory is not increased beyond the standard allocation (currently 125MB).
A student's project directory quota is in addition to his/her AFS login directory quota.
Project directories may also be used for :
- additional storage needed by graduate students in connection with teaching duties they may have
- individual students in any course in which the coursework requires additional disk quota

Additional Disk Quota for Courses

Additional disk quota for course work is provided for by a "course directory", which should be requested by the course instructor for his/her entire class, via mail to ucs@njit.edu -- details follow.

Each user in the student list sent by the instructor (use the format at the end) will have access to a course directory of sufficient quota for the needs of that course, and reserved exclusively for that user (no other user can insert a file, or modify a file, in that directory). The default AFS permissions are that no other user can read files in the assigned directory; however, the instructor can request read access to the directory for him/herself, or for everyone -- see request form at the end.

The instructor will be given the mapping of user name to course directory assigned to that user. The user's course directory is in addition to and separate from the user's home (login) directory.

In order to do course-related work, the user should change to his/her course directory. A symbolic link will be in each user's home directory to make it easy for the user to change to the course directory.

(To find out the full path of the course directory, the user can type "ls -l " in his/her home directory, or "pwd" when in the course directory; this might show that the directory assigned to that particular user is, for example, /afs/cad/courses/me403/14. "14" is the /afs/cad/courses/me403 subdirectory assigned to that particular user).

A user can always "cd" directly to his/her assigned course directory; "cd " in the user's home directory is only a convenience.

One week after the last day of finals, the user's access to his/her course directory will be removed, and those directories will be archived to tape and then purged. The tape archive of those directories will be available up to 6 months after they are purged.

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