GENG2140 Modelling and Computing Analysis for Engineers

Semester 2, 2009

How to activate your CSSE account 

Please activate your CSSE account so that you can

1. send messages to the discussion forum of GENG2140, and
2. submit your assignments to cssubmit later on.

Please do so ASAP as Assignment 1 is usually due very early in the semester.

• If you already used a CSSE account in semester 1, then your user name and password remain the same as before. To be safe, I suggest that you try to logon to cssubmit or the discussion forum to ensure that your password is exactly what you think it is.
• If you had a CSSE account prior to semester 1 this year, then your previous CSSE account would have been purged (as we manage students' accounts on a yearly basis). You should therefore follow the bullet point below to activate your new CSSE account.
• If you are a Civil Eng., Mech. Eng, or EE student, then it is unlikely that you already have CSSE account. If so, please follow the steps below to activate your account:
  • go to the CSSE home page: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au
  • click the link "Current Students" on the left hand panel
  • on the new webpage that shows up, you should see the heading "Student Information" near the top right corner. Click the link "Find your first password".
  • you should now see the "Welcome to the School of CSSE" page. Please follow the instruction given on the page to activate your account. Steps 2 and 3 described on the page there are optional -- you should have already activated your Central UWA email account and signed up your tutorial classes on OLCR.

After successfully activating your CSSE account, you should now have two accounts: one for the Windows platform and one for the Linux platform. Files on these two accounts are stored under different computers. However, since you won't be using any CSSE labs for GENG2140, you won't be able to access to your Windows account. You should therefore use your Linux account only for GENG2140.

The next thing you might want to do immediately is to change your CSSE Linux password to something that you can remember easily.

Q. How do you change your Linux password?
A. Follow the steps described below:

• Point to the CSSE home page: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au
• On the left hand panel, click on the heading "School and IT Information".
• You should now see two links appear below the heading. Click on the link "FAQ".
• More links should appear below the heading FAQ. Click on link "passwords".
  
• On the new page that shows up, please read the description under the heading "Linux passwords from within Windows"

  To change your CSSE Linux password from Windows, the best option is download putty (see the question below) and then logon to your account through putty. You will firstly need to connect to the host (uggp.csse.uwa.edu.au) using your old password. After you have successfully logged on, type:
  

          passwd
          

  You will be prompted to enter your old password to identify yourself. After that, you will need to enter your preferred new password twice (the second time is for confirmation). If everything goes well, the system should display a message saying that you have successfully changed your password. To log out, simply type: exit

  Your new password should be active immediately. Next time when you logon to the host again, you should use your new password.

Q. Where can you get putty?
A. Putty is free and and can be obtained from many websites. By searching for the term "putty download" under google, you should hit a few websites where putty can be downloaded. You can also find some useful information from the link "External Access" under the FAQ heading (see the previous question).

Please note that in order to submit your assignments to cssubmit, you will need to logon to cssubmit using your CSSE Linux password. So I suggest that you logon to csentry, cssubmit, or help2140 to test that your new CSSE account is working okay.

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