The primary mission of these computers is to provide instructional computing facilities to students at the University of Florida. Use of these computers for essential research or administrative functions is not recommended. Commercial activity is prohibited.
Access to these computers is usually available to all students, faculty, and staff at the University, but there may be specific restrictions or requirements for a particular service. You need a Gatorlink account to use the public microcomputer labs. Gatorlink and UNIX accounts may be applied for in room E520 CSE. These accounts may also be created online at http://www.gatorlink.ufl.edu
You are responsible for the security of your password. You should choose passwords that can not be easily guessed. Passwords should not be written down, stored in a file, or shared with others.
You have a right to use these facilities without being harassed by other users. Report all incidents to CIRCA.
You have a right to expect that your files and electronic messages are reasonably private, however you must be aware that computer systems in an education environment are not always secure and your files and electronic mail may be seen by others.
You must comply with all local, state, and federal laws, and university policies. You must comply with all rules and regulations posted in public computer areas.
You must use your correct name to identify your account, either when you apply for an account or first use an account given to you by an instructor. All other personal information must be supplied when requested and must be correct and current.
You must use your correct name and computer account in all electronic mail and messages.
You are responsible for protecting your files from reading or writing.
You must report any violation of University policies, or suspected violations of policies, to CIRCA immediately.
CIRCA will make every effort to maintain backup copies of your files, and restore them when they are lost or damaged. However, CIRCA cannot guarantee that there is a backup copy of any file, or that a file can be restored immediately.
Within the limits of the capability of the computer system, CIRCA will maintain the privacy of your personal information, except for your name. Your name is not private and may be seen by other computer users.
CIRCA has the right to monitor all activity on a computer system including individual sessions.
CIRCA has the right to terminate any computer session or print job that is consuming excessive resources, including idle sessions.
CIRCA has the right to revoke any account that has been used in violation of the policies specified in this document.
CIRCA has the right to delete an inactive account.
CIRCA has the right to refuse access to any person who has violated the policies in this document, or the policies of some other department.
CIRCA has the right to require you to change your password regularly, refuse to let you use some passwords, or require you to use a random password.
CIRCA has the right to limit your disk space and other available computer resources. On Unix systems, reasonable extensions of disk space and other resources can be granted to class accounts, instructor, and graduate student accounts when the resource is available and when the need is directly related to course work. No special extensions for disk space, cpu time, or priority are granted to faculty, staff, or student accounts.
Class accounts issued to an instructor are under the control of the instructor. CIRCA may, when it is possible, give instructors the ability to control activity for their class accounts, or let instructors read and write all files, including email, in their class accounts.
You must not deliberately degrade the performance of a computer or network, or consume large amounts of system resources, including disk space, computer time, paper, or dialup ports.
You must respect any disk quotas applied to your account and use as little disk space as possible. You must not use temporary areas or other areas to store large amounts of data for long periods.
You must not play computer games, including multi-user network games like MUD.
You must not interfere with the use of public workstations, terminals, or computing equipment. You must not lock, disable, or otherwise prevent other users from using equipment.
You must not develop, store, distribute, or use, programs or methods that:
You must respect the privacy and property of all files on the computer system. You must not assume that the ability to read a file implies permission to read the file. You must not alter or erase a file belonging to another user without explicit permission to do so. The ability to alter a file does not imply permission to do so.
Files in some system directories are intended for general use and may be viewed and used if the protection on that file permits. However, files in system directories are nearly always copyrighted or licensed and must not be copied.
CIRCA computers are connected to world-wide computer networks. You must at all times comply with the conventions and rules for use any computer network. CIRCA policy requires that you must:
Any infraction could result in the loss of access to the computer facilities.