Purpose of Accounts

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Use and Access

1. Accounts are for the exclusive use of the owner of the account. Users are responsible for safeguarding their password. A user who believes that someone has gained unauthorized access to his or her account must report that suspicion immediately to the system administrator.

2. No user is permitted to use his or her account to gain unauthorized access to other accounts or computers.

3. No user is permitted to use his or her account to help others to gain unauthorized access to any computer.

4. At no time and under no circumstances may these accounts be used in any way for direct commercial gain.

5. No account may be used to develop software for any of the above prohibited purposes, even if the software is not actually used on Department machines.

6. Users are expected to observe lab hours. In particular this means leaving the labs at closing times.

Behavior Toward Other Users

1. No user is permitted to use his or her account to harass other users, at this site or elsewhere. Examples of harassment include, but are not limited to, threatening or annoying e-mail messages, displaying offensive images or language on any terminal in an university lab, and any form of interference with another user's authorized use of the system, via electronic, verbal, physical, or other means.

2. Users must respect the privacy of other users' accounts. In particular, no user is permitted to attempt to change or circumvent the protections set by another user.

3. Users are expected to obey all lab rules, which include:
   1. No eating or drinking in the lab.
   2. Cooperating with university staff.
   3. Showing consideration for others using the lab
   4. Not displaying any offensive images or language on terminals or storing such images on university computers.
   5. Picking up his or her own trash.
   6. Any other official rules which may be posted in the lab.

Internet Access

1. Users are expected to use the internet in a responsible manner.

   See the complete policy for details.

Treatment of Software and Hardware

1. Users must respect software licenses.
2. No activity is permitted which causes unusual wear and tear on the Department terminals, printers, workstations or any other assets owned by Boise State University.

Nefarious Programs

1. No user is permitted to run, nor have in his or her disk space, nor place in disk space outside of his or her own directory subtree, any program which the Department considers ``nefarious''. Nefarious programs include but are not limited to trojan horses, trap doors, viruses, password-guessing programs, or any other program intended as a device or part of a device to compromise the security of the system.

2. No user is permitted to run, nor have in his or her disk space, nor place in disk space outside of his or her own directory subtree any program which uses an excessive amount of disk space, number of inodes, number of cpu cycles, or which in any way interferes with the administration of the system. In particular, this applies to programs expressly designed to crash the system.

3. Any executable code that a user places on the system must be the image of source which is also maintained somewhere on the system. Any standalone binaries which a user wishes to place on the system must be approved individually and in writing.

Game Playing

1. Users wishing to play games on the system must restrict their activities so as to have minimal impact on the system. ``Game playing'' is defined here as development or execution of a program whose value is primarily as a diversion and is not a requirement for a departmental course.

   See the complete policy for details.