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3. Computer access and use policiesLast revision February 16, 2006 Access to and use of the School's computer resources is conditional upon adherence to the policies established for those individual resources, and to the general University policies on Computer and Network Usage and adherence to copyright laws. The most important computer usage policy is one that applies to all University resources: commercial or illegal use of these computer facilities is prohibited. Occasional private use, such as preparing your resume, will be tolerated, but any use for private financial gain is strictly prohibited. Don't share your SUNet ID, pangea account, or other University computer accounts with anyone. Your account identifies you personally as being authorized to access certain resources or records. Anyone who is authorized to use a specific resource has, or can get, his/her own personal account. Anyone without a personal account is simply not authorized to use the resource. It's that simple. Sharing is also a security risk because passwords can get spread around beyond the control of the account owner. For these reasons, account sharing is a violation of Stanford's computing and network policies that can lead to disciplinary action. See the Stanford University Computer and Network Usage Policy for more information. Logoff pangea when you are done using the system, especially when you leave in the evening. Leaving a login session running continuously wastes system memory. Don't waste disk space on pangea. Don't keep more than 200 Megabytes of files in your pangea home directory (30 Megabytes for guest accounts) or more than 30 Megabytes in your "pangea Aufs" AppleShare directory. Use scratch disk areas for temporary or large files. For more information on disk usage, see Pangea file system uses and policies. Individual email messages sent through pangea cannot exceed 50 Megabytes in size, including attachments. To transfer a lot of data, use ftp instead, described in Options for off-site file transfer. Run only one big job at a time on pangea, and use lower priority, according to the Pangea "big jobs" policy. While reasonable effort is made to preserve the privacy of electronic mail communications, there are circumstances in which someone could obtain unauthorized access to another's email. In addition, email is regularly backed up on tapes that are kept for some time, and those can be subpoenaed in a court action. The safest policy is to never send anything potentially embarrassing or injurious in email. For more information, see Rules and policies for the pangea email system. Check for policies related to specific facilities and resources on the computing policies section of this website.
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