Some of these accounts have been around since 1990 and their owners have long since forgotten about them – so it’s a very reasonable question! An exhaustive list of the ways these have been used would be very difficult to generate but below are a few of the most common. Maybe one will jog your memory. If not, contact us and we can tell you things like your username, how much data is in there, and when the account was last used. We can also reset your password if necessary so you can go take a look at the actual data.
- Current: This is your login for the Research Computer linux systems Polaris and Andes.
- Current: Standalone data volumes that you access from any machine that has an AFS (or OpenAFS) client installed.
- Historical: In the past there have been other Linux/UNIX machines with names like sierra, belknap, grafton, nimbus, and cascade. Perhaps you used one of them.
- Historical: There were also UNIX computers in public locations that we called the northstar workstations. This account also would have given access to these. Northstar worksations were mostly from a company called SGI and had a distinctive deep blue color. These were mostly retired by 2008.