Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Advice, opinions, and ideas sought. Keywords: Keywords? I don't need no stinkin' keywords! Message-ID: <1991Jun26.135347.16484@ms.uky.edu> Date: 26 Jun 91 13:53:47 GMT References: <1991Jun26.055943.26481@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 27 mike@snowhite.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Mike Sidman) writes: |The first deals with the distribution of accounts. I am wondering |if any of you have a policy for giving out accounts on a departmental |UNIX machine. For example, if a student says he/she wants an account, |what is an exceptable explanation for their request? Also, what type |of storage limits do you impose on users that are essentially guests, |or not the main users of a network? Don't require them to provide an explanation. Encourage everyone to get a computer account. Show them how they can have access to electronic mail, Usenet, conferencing, typesetting, and powerful software tools. When someone signs up, tell them you're glad they did, and that you hope they'll learn about it and spread the knowledge. Give users a 1 meg soft quota, 3 meg hard quota, expandable on individual review. Provide them with easy offline storage so they can archive their "stuff" and take it offline instead of clogging your disks with it. Sean -- ** Sean Casey ** Recent subject line in comp.sys.handhelds: Printing BIG GROBS