Migrating ‘school unix’ accounts (2019 July 31)

We plan to transfer ‘school unix’ accounts from our current ‘legacy’ system to a new more supportable system. In the process, we want to filter out a number of now-derelict accounts, some of which are using non-trivial amounts of disk space.

Background:

There are multiple sets of user accounts within the school.
The ‘school unix’ accounts (mostly Astro and PPT users, and not including PPE or Nuclear group accounts) are being migrated to a new ‘single signon’ system.

You need to take action in response to this call if:

you have a non-GUID ‘school unix’ account (eg, fredbloggs as opposed to fb123x), or
you have an external collaborator (such as a former PhD student?) who has such an account,

which you wish to preserve.

You do not need to take any action:

if you have no such account, or if you don't know what it is;
if your ‘unix account’ is a GUID-style one, such as fb123x (this means it already exists exclusively on the new system);
if Norman has already migrated your account to the new system (see below); or
if you don't want the account any more.

Note: most undergraduate and masters students will have a GUID-based account automatically, so will probably not need to have one migrated from a pre-existing account. If an undergrad ‘legacy’ account needs to have content migrated, perhaps a hangover from a past masters project, then talk to Norman separately.

We do not plan to delete the old accounts immediately, so accounts can be migrated at some point in the future, if that becomes necessary.

To see if an account is already in the new system, look at the identity service page.

To request the migration of an account, go to the migration page.