Computing accounts are available to all Mines students, faculty, and staff while they are actively enrolled or employed at the university. These services continue during summer breaks and over other periods that may include normal school holidays, study abroad, internships, sabbaticals or extended leave. Special arrangements may need to be made during the semester or longer absences from campus, or any time official records may indicate inactive employment or academic status.
***NOTICE FOR END USERS***
Starting the week of February 17th, 2020 if end users are not able to successfully authenticate using single sign-on (SSO) solutions, such as Mines MultiPass. This article provides workaround options and more detailed information.
Guidelines for setting up a Parent PIN in Trailhead.
This article will help you navigate accessing Amazon AWS SSO access to AWS accounts using your Mines credential. This guide will also help go through how to access your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for CLI access.
If CloudShell does not meet your requirements and you need to run AWS CLI from a local system please submit a request through the help center at Cloud Request - AWS Accounts. Choose the General AWS Support option and let us know that you need assistance accessing the AWS CLI locally.
How to set your campus Preferred First Name.
In some cases it may be beneficial to updates or install necessary software. In these appropriate instances you can use an Administrator account without having to log out and login to the machine. NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT HAVE AN ADMIN ACCOUNT OR ARE UNSURE THEN YOU LIKELY DO NOT HAVE ACCESS. IF YOU ARE CERTAIN YOU NEED THIS ACCESS PLACE A REQUEST TICKET AT helpcenter.mines.edu.
This article covers the removal of user access for normal employee terminations, which are voluntary in nature. Since user account removal can vary based on role, more specific procedures can be found within to address each specific type of user account.
Use your Mines username (not your email address) for logging into Canvas and other similar Mines login services.
Okta is a customizable, secure, and scalable Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution. Mines is utilizing the cloud-based service to reduce the development costs, maintenance costs, and security risks associated with the previous IAM solution. Okta provides a dashboard of all single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) connected applications. For more information, visit
https://www.okta.com/.
Step-by-Step: How to properly use a local administrator account on a Microsoft Windows computer
Quotas are storage limits set for various Mines systems used by faculty, staff, and students. What are the quotas for various Mines systems? How do you check whether you're approaching yours?
Mines reserves the right to terminate email and other accounts (among them MultiPass) as soon as any student or employee separates from the institution. In theory, that could be the same day the individual officially leaves Mines, so plan accordingly.
This article pertains to the removal of multipass and other computing accounts that may directly or indirectly be provisioned by ITS.