Transcript Logging on - City College of San Francisco

How to get and log in to
a personal account on a
CCSF Mac
Mac accounts
Coming into a job with a Mac on the
desktop?
Want to use the Mac?
Have access to a Mac in a shared area
like teachers’ lounge?
 If so, you can get a personal Mac account
on the computer you want to use.
 A personal account keeps your work secure,
separates your files from others’
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First step: Network/GroupWise
Get your GroupWise email and Windows
Network accounts set up (see next slide)
Use GroupWise email on either Mac or
Windows PCs
 Web GroupWise client
 GroupWise help in TLC workshops
(www/ccsf/edu/tlc  training link)
or Techdocs site
(www.ccsf.edu/techdocs)
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Get Network and GroupWise Accounts
Submit ITS Request for CCSF Network Login
and GroupWise email form
 For a form: Help Desk: 239-3711 or local
ITS staff
Or: Attend a Technology Learning Center
workshop:
 Getting Your Accounts/Tech
Orientation or GroupWise Web Basics
Workshop Schedules at www.ccsf.edu/tlc Training
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Your computer accounts
1.
As a result of submitting the form or attending a
Getting Your Accounts or GroupWise Basics
Workshop:
Account on CCSF network (from Windows PCs)
 Allows login to any Windows Fac/Staff computer,
any campus
 Enables Windows access to your own 100 MB CCSF
network storage space on any networked CCSF
campus
2.
GroupWise email account
 Timeline: About 1 week from completion or
submission of online certificate
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Mac access accounts
In addition to Windows network and GroupWise
email accounts:
To get accounts to log into specific Macs:
identify locations for Mac account creation
Contact:
 Local ITS staff (campuses) or
 Sue Bettinger, Mac support:
[email protected]
 Or Help Desk: 239-3711
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Logging in: Logistics
What is your login name?
What is your first time password?
Do you have to change
your password?
How do I change
my password?
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User IDs (Login names)
Your Login / User ID is the same as on
GroupWise and the CCSF network
(and – for old-timers – fog):
The first letter of your first name
Followed by up to 7 letters of your last name,
for a total of up to 8 letters
(all lower case)
Common names like Wong or Johnson may
have to use a middle initial as the second
letter
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User ID examples
For Franco Bonnelli, the User ID / login
name would be fbonnell
For Sharon Lo, the login name would be
slo
Michael A. Johnson, however, might be
mjohnson
or
majohnso
(if another M Johnson already existed)
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First time Mac passwords
The initial password is the same as your
login
You aren’t forced to change your
password
For security: Change Passwords!
Anyone can guess your login name!
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Changing Passwords
In the Finder
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Click Apple Menu >
System Preferences >
My Account
Change password
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Forgotten Mac passwords
Forgotten Mac passwords
 Local ITS staff
 Or: Sue Bettinger:
email: [email protected]
 Or Help Desk: 239-3711
ITS staff must visit the
computer
•Identify the location of the Mac
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Logging on and Security
Security
Logging on gives you your own
OS X home directory
and documents folder
Keeps docs you save
separate from others’ work
Safe and easy to back up:
drag contents of documents
folder to a blank CD
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Responsibilities
Log off a shared Mac:
 Leaving yourself logged in 
other folks save to your
desktop or docs folder
 Your documents exposed
to anyone at the computer
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Logging off vs. Powering down
Log off shared computers  Others
don’t have to restart
Click the Apple menu
Then click Log off
Leaves the computer on ready for others to log in
without powering up
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Further information
Find this presentation and other documents in Word,
PowerPoint, video and acrobat format:
 www.ccsf.edu/tlc - Handouts link
 Also see the training link for our Workshop
Schedule
Document and Workshop subjects include:
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CCSF Network, Logging On
Microsoft Office Applications
GroupWise
Windows XP (Backing up your work, Organizing your docs)
Mac OS X
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