We are also encouraging the consolidation of server based services throughout the campus. A single authentication model has been developed for all users. The aim is to enable access via a single username and password to all campus services. This username is currently used for validation for access to personal filestore, email services, printing services, and dialup services and is being extended to control access to various intranet web services and access to online course materials. Developers can utilise this validation model via a standard LDAP interface.
New users can register via public clusters or the web.
All students are given an allocation of filestore on campus services which can be used for the storage of email messages and their own work in progress. Pegasus mail is the preferred email client, but POP3 support is also provided principally for remote and dialup access. We operate a centrally coordinated printing service which allows students to print to a large number of printers on campus maintaining a single account for payment. Printing is prepaid via payment machines situated in the major public access computing clusters. Large print jobs can be sent directly to the Manchester Computing Print Shop .