Holding pages on a shared account Shared pages should be kept in a shared account, where several collaborators can get at them to maintain them. This longer form is generally preferred. See the notes on simple Unix commands for instructions on how to make a new directory. The owner of the shared account can log in to it using the name of the account as the username and his or her own e-mail password. Not the hyphen between the account name and username.
Authorised users can then use their own passwords to access the shared account.
You only need to carry out this step the first time you set about creating symbolic links to staff personal pages. Note that this trick of creating symbolic links to the directories holding staff personal pages used to be necessary in order to make personal pages visible to the Web server. The Web co-ordinator will also have to decide where to put the hypertext links leading to staff pages.