User accounts at the Department of Informatics

Students majoring in Informatics (or Computing in Science,  IT management and consulting, Bioinformatics, etc.) can obtain on request for the duration of the study user accounts for the Informatics Computing Centre (IRZ).

With the submission of an application for a user account, the IRZ's user regulations are recognized by students!

User IDs for students are valid a maximum of one semester to the beginning of the next semester (30.4. Respectively 30.11.). These accounts are automatically renewed on a semester for students with Informatics major for the duration of study.

Students from other programs may apply for a user account when they need it for coursework in Informatics. These user IDs are not automatically renewed, but can be extended by presenting a valid semester certificate in the user consultation.

Note: For students majoring in computer science, the identifiers are usually created during Orientation Unit (OU), for minor students this occurs most commonly in the context of the assignment to exercise groups. The above forms should therefore be used only in exceptional cases for individual applications.

Structure of the User ID for Students

The user ID is generated from the last digit of the study cohort as a prefix and a maximum of 7 additional characters of the surname. If different users have the same names the first letter of the first name will be used.

Examples:

Name	Year	ID	Login-Directory	E-Mail
Karin Müller	1998	8mueller	/home/j98/8mueller	8mueller@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Gesa Schultze	2001	1schultz	/home/j2001/1schultz	1schultz@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Horst Schultze	2001	1hschult	/home/j2001/1hschult	1hschult@informatik.uni-hamburg.de

Staff of the department get an Informatics user account upon on request.

The user account usually consists of the user's last name, shortened to eight characters; if this account name is already in use, with a first name initial prefix. The full last name can also be used for the e-mail address.

Example: Max Mustermann has the account name musterma and the email addresses musterma@informatik.uni-hamburg.de and mustermann@informatik.uni-hamburg.de.

Each account is assigned to a user group by work group or project. Accounts are valid for a maximum of one semester but no longer than the employment contract.. When an account expires, the user or the account group's manager is informed and the account is extended if necessary.

The Informatics IT group will only delete user accounts after careful checking, necessary due to contractual obligations (DFN, F&L licenses) as well as the use of resources at the University of Hamburg financed by public funds for a specific purpose. The IT administration of user accounts has no influence whatsoever on the contractual employment relationships of staff.

If an account has been removed too early, please contact the Informatics IT group to restore data from backup and to re-establish the access.

To apply for a guest account you can fill out the user permit application form, which is available from the IRZ.

For more information see our page about guest accounts in special projects.