If you use the University's computing resources or facilities, you
have the following responsibilities:
Use the University's computing facilities and information resources,
including hardware, software, networks, peripherals and computer accounts,
responsibly and appropriately, respecting the rights of other computing
users and respecting all contractual and license agreements.
Use only those computers and computer accounts for which you have
authorization.
Use server accounts only for the purpose(s) for which they have been
issued.
Use University-owned microcomputers and advanced workstations for
University-related projects only.
Be responsible for all use of your accounts and for protecting each
account's password. In other words, do not share computer accounts.
If someone else learns your password, you must change it.
Report unauthorized use of your accounts to your project director,
instructor, supervisor, system administrator, or other appropriate
University authority.
Cooperate with system administrator requests for information about
computing activities. Under certain unusual circumstances, a system
administrator is authorized to access your computer files.
Take reasonable and appropriate steps to see that all hardware and
software license agreements are faithfully executed on any system,
network, or server that you operate.
Each user is ultimately responsible for his or her own computing and
his or her own work using a computer. Take this responsibility seriously.
For example, users should remember to make backup copies of their data,
files, programs, diskettes, and tapes, particularly those created on
microcomputers and those used on individually- or departmentally-operated
systems. Furthermore, users with desktop computers or other computers
that they operate themselves must remember that they may be acting
as the system administrators for those computers and need to take that
responsibility very seriously.
If you are a project director for a server group users, a supervisor
whose staff use computers, or a faculty member whose students use computers,
you must help your project members, staff, or students learn more about
ethical computing practices. You should also help your project members,
staff, or students learn about good computing practices and data management.
