Corporate aliases fill this need. Due to demand on resources and security concerns, Corporate aliases are more-easily obtained than corporate accounts. All students and employees of CUC are given an ID number, which is used to uniquely identify them. Since determining someones eligibility for an account is largely determined by their status as a student or employee of CUC, this system uses the same ID to track account owners and potential account owners . Deactivated accounts are not deleted , but logins for the account are denied.
Departments are one of the few entities eligible for corporate accounts .
Examples of academic departments include the English, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Nursing departments. Examples of administrative departments include the Financial Aid Office, the Accounting Office, AEP, Heating and Cooling, etc. For each system and class of user , the system administrator uses the configuration file to set default disk space quotas . For each system, user class , the system administrator defines a default disk allocation in the configuration file . Account names sometimes require that people's natural names be truncated.