• What is the CS Portal?
• What Do You Have to Do at the Start of the Semester?
• What If You Already Have a Linux Account?
• Creating a Linux Account
• The Username Field
• The UMB Email Field
• The Password Field
• Changing Your Password
• Windows Accounts

What is the CS Portal?

• The CS Portal is a web application that allows a student to
  • Create a Unix Account
  • Create a Class Directory
  • Change Unix passwords

What Do You Have to Do at the Start of the Semester?

• In order to do the work for this course, you will need two things
  • A Linux account
  • A course directory
• With the Linux account to can connect to Linux machines on the CS Department network
• The course directory is where you will put your work for this course
• When you create a Unix account you will also get a Windows account with the same password
• You can use the Windows account on any of the Windows machines in the CS Labs

What If You Already Have a Linux Account?

• You must connect to the CS Portal at the start of the semester ...
• even if you already have a Unix account
• Your Unix account can be used for any class
• But each class needs it's own class directory
• The class directory is where you put your work for the class
• To get a class directory go to https://portal.cs.umb.edu and login
• You will then see a list of all CS and IT courses that have class directories
• Select the correct section by clicking on the check box
• Then click Submit
• There may be more than one section for each course ...
• so be sure to click on my section

Creating a Unix Account

• Do not create a new Linux account if you already have one
• To create a Linux account go to https://portal.cs.umb.edu/register/
• When you do, you should see a page that looks like this

The Username Field

• The first box is for your username
• The username must be no more than 8 characters ...
• and it must start with a letter
• It must be lower case ...
• so do not use capitals
• A good choice for a username is the initial of your first name ...
• followed by your last name
• For example, my username is ghoffman

The UMB Email Field

• Only UMB students should have a Unix account
• To enforce this rule we ask for your UMB email address

The Password Field

• A password must
  • Have between 10 and 128 characters
  • Have at least 2 uppercase letters
  • Have at least 2 lowercase letters
  • Have at least 2 digits (0-9)
  • Have at least 2 special symbols (!$%#^@&*_+ etc.)

Creating a Class Directory

• After you click the Submit button, an email will be sent to your UMB email
• It will contain a link
• When you click on this link you will return to the CS Portal
• You will then see a list of all CS and IT courses that have class directories
• Select the correct section by clicking on the check box
• Then click Submit
• There may be more than one section for each course ...
• so be sure to click on my section

Changing Your Password

• To change the password on your account go to https://portal.cs.umb.edu/password/
• On the left hand side of the screen you will see "Change Password"
• Enter the new password twice and click on the "Change Password" button
• If this does not work contact the operators at operator@cs.umb.edu

Windows Accounts

• You can also use your Unix account on any CS Department Windows machines