Anytime authorization to campus technology resources.
Anywhere access to personal data files and web pages.

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Universal Login
Network File / Web Space

Universal Login is the term for new functionality coming in the Fall of 2003 that will allow every member of the campus community (staff or student) to log into any computer on campus by typing in their unique MySCSU username and password. The advantage of implementing such a system? Quite simply: unprecedented personalization.

Examples of the benefits possible through universal login:

• Dramatically faster printing
  by directly passing your login ID to area printers
• Drag-and-drop access to your personal data files
  that follows you between any/all campus computers you log into
• Drag-and-drop access to your personal website files
  that follows you between any/all campus computers you log into
• Increased security of your data
  by forcing different users to login using different logins (versus one generic account)

If you have ever found yourself at the end of a three hour writing session when you find out that your floppy disk has jammed or otherwise rendered itself unusable you can immediately appreciate the obvious need for a better method of file backup and transport than is available using traditional (unreliable) removable disk media.

Network file and web space is a combination of the technologies involved in the MySCSU web portal and the universal login functionality mentioned above. Expected to arrive sometime in 2004 or later, network file and web space provides you with a "virtual floppy" drive space equivalent to approximately floppy disks eight floppy disks (10 megabytes) which automatically appears on any publically-accessible campus computer you log into. You can use your network file/web space for both transporting or backing up files as well as publishing your own web site. And since your files reside securely on a remote computer, there is no concern over losing, damaging, or forgetting your files at home. Anytime, anywhere you are on campus so are you files, quickly and reliably.

MySCSU + Universal Login = Network File/Web Space

Feeling adventurous? Why not try it yourself right now? Getting started using your personal web / file space on any online computer is as easy as the following three steps:

1. Connect to the address of www.southernct.edu using any standard FTP client
   example: Fetch for Mac OS or Win_FTP for Windows
   
   
2. Enter your MySCSU login/password in the login and password fields
   your MySCSU login is generally in the form of your last name + first initial + 1
   
   
3. Drag and drop any files from your local computer to the FTP window you have open
   note: any files you drop in the "www" directory shown will automatically be accessible by others through any standard web browser at the address:
   
   http://home.southernct.edu/~YourMySCSULogin