Retirement of ucsu.colorado.edu and ucsub.colorado.edu

Through the spring 2008 semester, the student servers named ucsu and ucsub are being retired. People with accounts on either or both of those servers will be notified about the expiration of their account. The topics below will help you take the appropriate action before your account expires:

• E-mail accounts
• Personal web pages
• Campus web pages on www.colorado.edu (/htdocs)
• Forgotten password
• Accessing your ucsu or ucsub account
• Users with other needs
• Related links

E-mail accounts

If your e-mail is hosted on ucsu.colorado.edu or ucsub.colorado.edu, you will need to change your mailhome to CULink.

Changing your mailhome does not move your previously read e-mail to the new server. It only changes where future e-mail will be delivered. Your mail change is not immediate; delivery will change overnight.

You may change your mailhome two ways:

1. PLUS:
   • go to http://plus.colorado.edu
   • click Log-On
   • enter your CUID & PIN and click Submit
   • click E-mail & Passwords on the left of the screen
   • click GO to the left of E-mail Delivery
   • click the button to the left of the host culink
   • click Submit
2. Contact the IT Service Center, 303-735-4357 (5-HELP), help@colorado.edu.

Important! After changing your mailhome, you will need to manually move your e-mail messages to your new account. If you need assistance contact the IT Service Center, 303-735-4357 (5-HELP), help@colorado.edu. They can walk you through the process of manually moving your messages.

Personal Web Pages

Student web pages which are currently on ucsu or ucsub with a URL like this: http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~user can be hosted on WebFiles, a service inside of CUConnect. Students can access WebFiles via CUConnect. If you are a faculty or staff member, please contact the IT Service Center.

You will need to transfer your own files from ucsu or ucsub to WebFiles; ITS will not be moving web pages as part of the retirement project. Click here to learn how to upload files into WebFiles.

If you have special CGI programming needs, please contact the IT Service Center, 303-735-4357 (5-HELP), help@colorado.edu, and explain what you are using the unix web server for.

Redirecting your website's URL to WebFiles

If you are redirecting your personal website to WebFiles, create a file in your public_html directory named .htaccess (don't forget to enter the "." before .htaccess) and put in this one line in that file. Be sure all permissions are readable on the file:

RedirectMatch permanent /~(.*?)/(.*)$ http://webfiles.colorado.edu/$1/www/$2

The example above illustrates the redirect line that needs to be in the .htaccess file that you create. In this example, a Unix editor called PICO was used. You can use this or any text editor to create this file. Your file should contain nothing else besides this line.

Redirecting your website's URL to another ITS server

If you are redirecting your personal web site to spot or rintintin, create a file in your public_html directory named .htaccess and put in this one line. Change rintintin to spot if that is your server. Be sure all permissions are readable on the file:

Redirect permanent / http://rintintin.colorado.edu/

The example above illustrates the redirect line that needs to be in the .htaccess file that you create. In this example, a Unix editor called PICO was used. You can use this or any text editor to create this file. Your file should contain nothing else besides this line.

Campus web pages on www.colorado.edu (/htdocs)

If you work on web pages that are hosted on www.colorado.edu and which reside in /htdocs, you will work on the pages via a different server, rintintin, unless you are Faculty/Staff and already have an account on spot. The account will be created for you and you will be contacted when your rintintin (or spot) account is ready for you to access /htdocs.

Forgotten password

If you do not remember your ucsu or ucsub password, you can reset it in PLUS if you know your CU ID and PIN number.

1. PLUS:
   • go to http://plus.colorado.edu
   • click Log-On
   • enter your CUID & PIN and click Submit
   • click E-mail & Passwords on the left of the screen
   • click GO to the left of Account Activation and Passwords
   • click Change/Set pasword for ucsu [or ucsub]
   • follow the remainining instructions
2. If you don't have access to PLUS, contact the IT Service Center, 303-735-4357 (5-HELP), help@colorado.edu.

Accessing your ucsu or ucsub account

You can access your ucsu or ucsub account in the following ways:

1. Use a secure shell program, like SSH Secure Shell or the Secure Mac Installer, provided by ITS.
2. All SCARPIE locations provide access to the ucsu and ucsub servers on the right side of the screen.
3. You can FTP into ucsu.colorado.edu or ucsub.colorado.edu to access your files.
   1. Windows, use SSH Secure Shell program
   2. Macintosh, use Secure Mac Installer's Fetch program.
4. If you need help, contact the IT Service Center, 303-735-4357 (5-HELP), help@colorado.edu.

Users with other needs

If you have other needs for a unix shell account, please contact the IT Service Center, 303-735-4357 (5-HELP), help@colorado.edu, with an explanation of how you are using your ucsu or ucsub account, and we will address your request individually.

Related links

Getting Help

Help Docs
IT Service Center
303-735-4357 (5-HELP from an on-campus phone)
help@colorado.edu