JHU ACM Systems’ Documentation: End User Edition

Note

Sysadmins probably want JHU ACM Systems’ Documentation: Sysadmin Edition instead.

Here you can find more information (and even some tutorials!) on the services listed at our web site <services_>. This should hopefully be enough for you to get started actually using those services. If it isn’t, complain (once, then fix it)!

• Navigating the ACM’s Services
  • First And Foremost
  • OK, OK. Tell Me About The Goodies
    • Storage
      • How does AFS work?
      • Quota
      • Permissions
        • Special Permissions in Your Home Directory
      • Creating Groups
      • What Happens Late At Night?
    • Mail
    • Web Hosting
    • Kerberos Authentication
      • Changing Your Password
      • Life without SSH Keys
      • Long-running sessions
      • CGI scripts
      • Periodic Tasks
    • Using JHED Identities with the ACM Systems
    • Installing the OpenAFS client on Your Own Machine
      • Linux, BSD, etc., systems
      • Mac OS X systems
      • Windows
    • Where Are All My Old Files?
• ACM Email
• Using Our Shell Servers
• Storing Things in AFS
  • What is AFS?
  • What Came with My Account?
  • Accessing AFS Remotely
• A Storm Over the ACM: How to Use Our Cloud Environment(s)
  • The Zen of Cloud Computing
    • What is This Thing, and Why Do I Want It?
    • What Can I do with Openstack?
    • Sandstorm
  • Full Virtual Machines in Openstack
    • Setting Up an Openstack VM
      • Before You Start
      • An Overview of Openstack
      • Creating a VM
    • Managing Your Virtual Machines
  • Sandstorm
• Group Services in the Brave New World
  • AFS Groups
    • Creating Additional PTS Groups for Your Group
  • Storage
  • Mailing List(s)