Membership in System Managers and in the sysmgrs alias is determined by the Information Director. We will implement a request tracking system for siggraph.org as a place for all clients of the machine to submit requests for service. Different classes of request will be routed via the system to a primary and backup member of System Managers, based on the kind of request. The system will allow the submitter to track the status, assignment, and progress of their request. The reason for individuals or groups to have shell accounts on siggraph.org is if and only if they need the account to manage information on the siggraph.org server.
All shell accounts come with an expiration date.
The account is active for the term of whatever information or project you are managing plus about a year. Accounts will be extended if the need still exists at the end of their term. All shell accounts will automatically have an alias created to forward their email offsite. There will be a grace period for those who do not currently forward their mail. No compiled software installation is allowed in personal directories, and there are no individual cgi-bin directories.