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Accounts at UVM

Creating Your Account

Visit http://www.uvm.edu/account/ to create or manage your account. From this page, you can forward your mail, filter your mail, block e-mail addresses, or set a vacation message on your account. You must be a UVM affiliate (be registered for a class or on the payroll) to create an account. Zoo accounts are required for many classes at UVM and allow you to access many UVM-only resources.

What You Can Do With Your Zoo Account

E-Mail - Zoo is the best e-mail server on campus!
Web Pages - You can use your Zoo account to create web pages
File Sharing - You can store your files on Zoo and access them from anywhere in the world.
Running Applications - Many programs can be run directly from Zoo, either in an X-Windows environment or from the command line.
Write Programs - many programming languages are available on Zoo
Learn about UNIX - UNIX is a powerful multi-user operating system with many useful tools

Account Policies

By accepting and/or using your UVM Zoo account, you must understand and agree to accept several responsibilities.

What is Zoo?

Zoo is a collection of reliable, secure servers running AIX, Solaris and Linux. Those servers are involved in things like web serving, file serving, sending and receiving e-mail, video streaming, running custom scripts and web programs, serving databases, and many other tasks. You can learn more about Zoo here.

Finding Someone's E-mail Address

finding your own account name
finding someone else's e-mail address at UVM
finding someone'se e-mail address outside of UVM

Accounts on Other Servers at UVM

Accounts on other servers? who to contact for info on:

  • zoo
  • calendar
  • netware
  • giraffe
  • uvmvm
  • (emba, bsad, com)..

Last modified September 08 2001 07:18 AM

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