CIS Server Access & Usage
The CIS Department Servers provide
both a Windows 2003 Enterprise Server and Unix server computing environment. Here is some helpful information about
accounts, Web pages, and scripts on each system.
Windows 2003 Server (cis2.stvincent.edu):
- All CIS students have an account for this server.
- When logging into this server be sure to use CISDEPT as the domain.
- To change your password, do the following
- At any time while logged into a CIS Lab PC, simply press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to
display the Windows Security dialog box.
- At this dialog box, click the Change Password... button.
- Use the Change Password box to enter you old and new password, click OK when finished.
- If all is successful, simply click Cancel when back at the Windows Security dialog box.
- If you have a problem with your account, contact Br. David.
- Your Web pages on this server are located in your W: mapped network drive,
or available through FTP at /www/youruserid.
- Your main Web page can be found at http://cis2.stvincent.edu/yourID
by replacing yourID with your CIS logon name.
See Windows 2003 Web Server for further information.
- Student web pages must conform to the department policies.
- A Use and Access Guide (Word
document) is available. Printed copies can also be found in the CIS lab.
It goes over logging in on the lab PCs, using My Network Places
and mapped network drives, changing your password, etc.
- There is also a one page Quick Reference
on how to use your account.
Unix Server (cis.stvincent.edu):
- Unix server accounts are provided to CIS students who request them
from Br. David or to those taking CIS courses that require such accounts.
- One logs into the system by using SecureCRT,
TeraTerm,
PuTTY,
or similar SSH2 client. Be sure to use the most recent version of these.
- Important Note:
As of Jan 2006 we have set our server to deny access to all login attempts
except those from on-campus or from the addresses known to be used by our off-campus users.
If you are a CIS student at Saint Vincent College who should have access to this server but
seem to be denied, check with Br. David to see if the problem can be resolved.
- To change your password enter the passwd command once logged in. There is a minimum
of 30 days before you can change the password again. After 90 days the password expires,
so change it before then.
- Our Unix server provides standard email capabilities and your address on it
is yourID@cis.stvincent.edu, where yourID is replaced by your user ID.
- A simple help menu is available at the Unix command line. Enter: topic
- The Unix server also provides students with a web folder to publish
web pages. The location is /www/yourID, where yourID would be replaced by your
user ID for this system.
- Web pages on this system normally have a .html extension. You can edit them
directly in Unix with an editor such as vi or emacs. See
Unix editors for more information.
Web pages can be created on a PC in various ways and then transferred to the
Unix system. For example, pages could be created Dreamwearver, Netscape Composer,
a simple text editor such as Notepad, Word (using its save as html feature), etc.
To FTP the files to the Unix system use SecureFX or similar.
- Student web pages must conform to the department policies.
- If you use CGI scripts, they go in /www/cgi-bin. Be sure you know what you
are doing if you use CGI scripts, as it is easy to unintentionally create security holes with them.
In particular, filter out all but desired characters from all user input.
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