Initialising new student accounts
When the CSE system processes your enrolment from NSS data, it automatically creates a username (also known as login id) for you as part of your account, but it does not set a password. In order to learn your username and set your password, you need to initialise your account by following the steps below.- If you are enrolled in a first year computing course such as COMP1911 or ENGG1811
- you will be helped with this in your first lab, although you are welcome to do it anytime before.
- You will need to know your student number to initialise your account.
- Your student number is on your student card which you collected from E-Spot. When you got your card, you should also have received your UniPass; if for some reason you didn't, then go to the IT Service Desk in the Library. Most methods of initialising your account require your UniPass
- If you are in one of the CSE Linux laboratories
- ie. you are looking at a GDM login screen (which is dark blue with a single box in the middle for entering your username) you will use the Linux initialisation program which requires your student number and UniPass.
All of these programs do the same thing: they ask you to identify yourself, inform you of your username and get you to set a password on your account. But they look different because of differences in the way Windows and Linux operate.
You do not have to initialise your account from a CSE laboratory. You can do it from another UNSW computer or even from home by going directly to the website http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/newuser.php. From here on the procedure is exactly the same as if you had started the Linux initialisation program at Step 2.If you have any problems initialising your account or logging in afterwards, ask the CSE Help Desk or your tutor for assistance.