Your UNIX account's username is the first 2 letters of your last name followed by the first 2 letters of your first name followed by the last 4 digits of your student ID number. For example, if your name is John Doe and your student ID is 123456789, then your username is dojo6789.
Your UNIX account's initial password is all 9 digits of your student ID number.
Logging onto your UNIX account
At Queens College:
The program (WinSCP) to log onto your UNIX
account may or may not be installed on the computers on campus. If the
program is installed on the computer, just click on the Logging onto
your UNIX account link to follow the instructions to log into your
UNIX account.
At Home:
Before you can access your UNIX account from home,
you need to install the WinSCP program on your home computer. Click the
following link to go to the instructions to install this program: Instructions to install the WinSCP program on your home
computer. Once you've installed the program on your home computer,
just click on the Logging onto your UNIX account link to follow the
instructions to log into your UNIX account.