Getting a New SLAC Account

Need a SLAC account? Follow the instructions... there are forms involved, of course.

1. Users Group: SLUO - http://www-sldnt.slac.stanford.edu/test/sluo/sluo-newmem_form.asp

2. computer accounts - http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/form/account/account.html (note - when filling out the "SLAC computer account form" you will want to sign up for both Windows NT and Central Unix accounts)

   1. you should look at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/unix/unix.html for help on using SLAC unix accounts. There is a list of public servers you can use to login to.

   2. you should look at http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/comp/winnt/ for help on using SLAC Windows accounts.

3. you will need to fax the signed agreement to Richard Dubois at 650-926-8616 for signature approval. Please send mail to Richard (richard@slac.stanford.edu) to confirm sending the fax. Sometimes they vanish without a trace!

As an additional nicety, you should modify your SLAC unix account's login script (.cshrc) to use our group settings. One feature you will gain from this is to get prompted for your AFS password upon interactive login (a side effect of using the RSA keys is that you can login without giving your AFS password, but then have no write access to your files!).  

You can set up your cshrc to use the group setup script in two ways (note the default instructions describe setup for using ground software - people using flight software should use the instructions in pink).

1. If you you have a new account and have not made modification to your .cshrc file, then replace your default .cshrc file that SCS gives you with the file /afs/slac/g/glast/ground/scripts/user.cshrc (/afs/slac/g/glast/flight/scripts/user.cshrc).  This user script will set up a environment variable called GLASTROOT, which points to /afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/glast/.  It will also call the group script, /afs/slac/g/glast/ground/scripts/group.cshrc (/afs/slac/g/glast/flight/scripts/group.cshrc), which will set you up to use the group copies of CMT, ROOT, etc.

2. If you have modifications to your .cshrc script that you don't want to lose, then you may use the group script by adding the following lines to the top of you .cshrc script 

       set interactive=${?prompt}
       if ( ${?LD_LIBRARY_PATH} != 1 ) then
           setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH
       endif
       setenv GLASTROOT /afs/slac.stanford.edu/g/glast
       source ${GLASTROOT}/ground/scripts/group.cshrc (source ${GLASTROOT}/ground/scripts/group.cshrc)

Note that previously people had been instructed to source the file $GLASTROOT/bin/glastOfflineCshrc.  This file has been superseded by the above group.cshrc file, largely so that seperate setups can be done for ground and flight software.  People using the old glastOfflineCshrc should switch to the new script, as the old one will no longer be maintained (as of Nov 15, 2000).