User Accounts for UCSB On-Line System
New login requirements to track network user access and billing.
Stoughton, R., "User Accounts for UCSB On-Line System", RFC 350, DOI 10.17487/RFC0350, May 1972, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc350>.
@misc{rfc350,
series = {Request for Comments},
number = 350,
howpublished = {RFC 350},
publisher = {RFC Editor},
doi = {10.17487/RFC0350},
url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc350},
author = {R. Stoughton},
title = {{User Accounts for UCSB On-Line System}},
pagetotal = 3,
year = 1972,
month = may,
} RFC text
NWG/RFC# 350 R.M. Stoughton
User Accounts for UCSB On-line System UCSB
NIC 10549 18-May-72
For the past year UCSB has provided free use of the UCSB
On-line System to Network sites. Recharges for this
service are being paid for by the Computer Research Lab
with funds out of our current ARPA contract. Connect
time for the month of April totaled 152 hours.
Presently, all users are running on the same account:
User Number=196, ID Code=57372, User Name=ARPA. As
such, it is difficult to monitor the amount of use by
each site. Consequently, we are changing the login
procedure for Network users, effective 1 June 72.
Commencing June 1, the new login parameters will be:
User Number=196
ID=57372
User Name=<site destination>
Job Name=<your name> (NIC ID will suffice).
The appropriate site designation is listed at the end of
this RFC for each affilliation presently connected to
the ARPA network. Any site omitted from this list which
plans on running at UCSB should contact me at (805)
961-3793.
Network users of the UCSB On-line System are reminded
that these free accounts are provided for Network
experimentation. We also encourage use of this service
on a casual basis inorder that users unfamiliar with the
Culler-Fried System may acquaint themselves with some of
the facilities available. However, sites intending to
use the system on a production basis are requested to
open a private account to which computer charges can be
billed.
We will also continue to provide free remote batch
support on a limited basis. Again, this service is
provided as a convenience to Network sites who are
attempting to implement and debug Network software.
Sites submitting production jobs will be expected to
open a Computer Center account and pay for computer
charges billed to that account.
NWG/RFC# 350 RMS 18-MAY-72 15:38 10549
User Accounts for UCSB On-Line System
Affilliation Network Site Designation
Address (User Name)
AMES-67 16 AMES
AMES-ILLIAC ? AMES
AMES-TIP 144 AMES
BBN-NCC 5 BBN
BBN-TENEX 69 BBN
BBN-TENEXB 133 BBN
BBN-TESTIP 158 BBN
BURR 15 BURR
BURR-TEST 79 BURR
CASE-10 13 CASE
CMU-10 14 CMU
ETAC-TIP 148 ETAC
GWC-TIP 152 GWC
HARV-1 73 HARV
HARV-10 9 HARV
HARV-11 137 HARV
ILL-ANTS 12 ILL
ILL-CAC 76 ILL
LL-67 10 LL
LL-TSP 138 LL
LL-TX-2 74 LL
MCCL-418 22 MCCL
MIT-AI 134 MIT
NWG/RFC# 350 RMS 18-MAY-72 15:38 10549
User Accounts for UCSB On-Line System
MIT-DMCG 70 MIT
MIT-MULTICS 6 MIT
MITRE-TIP 145 MITRE
NBS-CCST 19 NBS
NBS-TIP 147 NBS
NCAR-7600 25 NCAR
NCAR-TIP 153 NCAR
RADC-645 18 RADC
RADC-TIP 146 RADC
RAND-CSG 71 RAND
RAND-RCC 7 RAND
SDC-ADEPT 8 SDC
SRI-AI 66 SRI
SRI-ARC 2 SRI
SU-AI 11 SU
TINK-418 21 TINK
UCLA-CNN 65 UCLA
UCLA-NMC 1 UCLA
UCSB-75 3 UCSB
USC-44 23 USC
USC-TIP 151 USC
UTAH-1O 4 UTAH
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§1Introduction
RFC 350 announces a policy change at UCSB's Computer Research Lab for network access to the UCSB On-line System (based on the Culler-Fried System). For the past year, UCSB provided free experimental access to ARPANET sites. All users logged in with the same shared account (User Number 196, ID 57372, User Name ARPA).
Because all users shared one account, UCSB could not track which sites were using the system or measure usage. Connect time in April 1972 totaled 152 hours. To improve accounting and distinguish between experimental and production use, UCSB is changing the login procedure.
A school shared its computer with everyone on the network for free. Everyone used the same login name, so nobody knew which school was using it or how much. This made accounting impossible.
§2New Login Procedure
Effective June 1, 1972, the new login parameters are:
- User Number: 196 (unchanged)
- ID: 57372 (unchanged)
- User Name: [site designation] (e.g., BBN, MIT, RAND)
- Job Name: [your name] or [your NIC ID]
Each ARPANET site has a two or three letter site designation listed at the end of RFC 350 (AMES, BBN, MIT, RAND, UCLA, etc.). Using the site name as the user name lets UCSB track usage by organization.
Now you type your school's name where it says user, and your own name where it says job. UCSB can then see which school is logging in.
§3Access Levels
UCSB reminds network users that free accounts are for network experimentation and casual use only, so people can learn the Culler-Fried System. Sites planning production work must open a private paid account with UCSB's Computer Center and pay for the computer time used.
UCSB also continues to offer limited free remote batch support for sites debugging network software, with the same constraint: production batch jobs require a paid account.
The free account is for trying things out and learning. If you want to run real work, you have to open a paid account.