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Hi,
We are changing how account renewals work from now on. Instead of sending mail to have your account renewed manually, all users will be able to renew their own account by running "acctrenew" on a Solaris login server (e.g. willow).
You will receive email notifications 28 days, 7 days and 1 day before your account expires. This mail will tell you how to renew your account (i.e., run acctrenew). There will be no notifications via the mailing list, so you need to make sure your Toolserver email address is up-to-date.
You cannot run acctrenew until 28 days before your account expiry. It will extend your account for six months from the day you run it (not six months from your current expiry).
This system should be easier for everyone, since users can renew their accounts immediately, and admins don't have to do anything.
If you allow your account to expire, you will not be able to renew it yourself. That still requires sending mail to ts-admins@.
- river.
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MZMcBride:
River Tarnell wrote:
If you allow your account to expire, you will not be able to renew it yourself. That still requires sending mail to ts-admins@.
I thought the preferred way was to file a ticket in JIRA. Can you clarify?
Either of these methods is acceptable.
- river.
Um, just a small question. Couldn't one theoretically write a crontab script to automatically renew their account, hence defeating the purpose of renewals? (e.g. account user dies or whatever, but their account keeps being renewed). -- Chris
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Christopher Grant:
Couldn't one theoretically write a crontab script to automatically renew their account, hence defeating the purpose of renewals?
Yes, but this would be beyond the technical ability of most users. The few users capable of doing so would probably realise that the tiny inconvenience of having to renew their account every six months is better than the risk of being discovered and losing their account permanently.
- river.
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