How to get an account on OSCER Computers

1. Eligibility: To be eligible for an account on OSCER computers, you MUST be on an education or research project that has, as one of its Principal or Co-Principal Investigators, an OU faculty or staff member.
    
2. Send e-mail to hneeman@ou.edu requesting an account (copied to the OU faculty or staff member who is providing your eligibility).
    
3. In the e-mail, please provide the following information:
   1. your name;
   2. your e-mail address;
   3. your preferred username (we may argue if it's silly):
      1. 2 to 8 characters long,
      2. lower case letters and digits only,
      3. first character a lower case letter,
      4. OU students, faculty and staff: we prefer to avoid using your OU4+4, because we don't use the OU4+4 user database for these accounts (we have a significant number of non-OU users, so we'd have to create many exception accounts for them);
   4. your preferred Unix shell (e.g., tcsh, bash, ksh -- if you don't have a preference, we'll choose one for you);
   5. a group/project name, same rules as username.
   
    
4. If your eligibility is approved, then an account request will be submitted for you, and you'll receive an e-mail when your account is created.
    
5. Once you get your login and initial password, IMMEDIATELY change your password.
    

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