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• List of NetIDs which will have login rights

• Initial An initial list of software to be installed

• Name of the machine (if not provided by your department or group’s IT)

• Name of the primary researcher for the lab (PI)

• Whether you want CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 18.04

  • In general we prefer CentOS 7 because it is an enterprise OS that is much less likely to have breaking updates and generally has fewer security issues and bugs.

  • If requesting Ubuntu 18.04 is the preferred release. This release has newer versions of software and better support for newer hardware.

  • Ubuntu 16.04 might be possible, under special circumstances, when approved by the machine owner (not the machine user) or a professor in the research lab (whichever is applicable).

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Tier2 Tier2

Self-Supported (Tier 2)

Under this new policy, you will be required to submit a request with a valid, detailed justification for Tier 2 management to the Engineering IT Linux Team. Only very specific circumstances will be allowed. If your request is approved by the Linux Team, it will be forwarded to the Chief Information Officer and Chief Information Security Officer of the College of Engineering for approval. Additionally, Tier 2 exceptions must now be approved by the Dean’s Office. Should your scenario be approved by all of these, you will be able permitted to have a Tier 2 computer. Please note that as a result of these changes, there will be much more scrutiny on regarding your reason for requesting Tier 2 management, and consequently there will be fewer Tier 2 approvals than in the past. 

With this option the requested operating system will be installed for you, NetID access and Endgame virus/malware protection enabled, and root access provided. However, we will not assist any further on

Caveats

All additional software must be installed by your group, and we will not assist any further with the machine. This means that if you run into problems after making changes to, or updating the machine, you will be on your own. If you get to a point where you cannot use the machine anymore, we can reinstall it from scratch. You are responsible for backing up your data prior to our reinstall.

Root access is gained by using the ‘dzdo’ command instead of the ‘sudo’ command. It works the same way as ‘sudo’ and takes the same arguments, but ‘dzdo’ is provided by the 3rd party tool Centrify, which allows us to provide NetID-based logins.