Adding a new IVL user

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Sign up a New IVL Member

  • Composite user name: normally first letter of first name + last name. Example: Jurgen Schulze -> jschulze
  • Create user ID for IVL lab. This is the main user data base for the mapping of user ID to user name.
  • Create IVL user name:
    • ssh root@sessions.ucsd.edu
    • useradd -u <user_id> -s /bin/bash -g 100 <user_name>
    • passwd <user_name>
    • add user to covise group in /etc/group
    • ./passsync
  • Create a user name on the Windows machine.
  • Notify of weekly team meetings.