Undergraduate Students
Students enrolled in Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences courses are automatically given an account each semester. You can use your account to login to the Windows PCs, Macs, or Linux machines in the John C. Comfort Laboratory (JCCL) undergraduate labs located in CASE 237 and CASE 241. This access is granted for the duration of the semester only.
Your username is your FIU username. Your FIU username is the first part of your email address before the ‘@fiu.edu’ and in the form: jdoe001. If you do not know your FIU username, log into MyFIU, select Main Menu Campus Solutions Self Service Campus Personal Information Email Addresses. You will see your ‘Campus’ email address in the form: jdoe001@fiu.edu. The characters before ‘@fiu.edu’ is your FIU username.
Your initial password is the first initial of your first name, followed by your Panther ID, and the first initial of your last name. For example: A student named ‘John Doe’ with a Panther ID of ‘1234567’ would be ‘j1234567d’.
Note: If you registered late for a class, your account will be created within the next 24 hours after you have registered. Each semester your JCCL password is reset to the initial password. All accounts will expire on the last day of classes and it is your responsibility to maintain a backup of your computer files.
Graduate Students
Students enrolled in Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences courses are automatically given an account each semester. You can use your account to login to the Windows PCs, Macs, or Linux machines in the graduate lab located in CASE 252.
Your username is your FIU username. Your FIU username is the first part of your email address before the ‘@fiu.edu’ and in the form: jdoe001. If you do not know your FIU username, log into MyFIU, select Main Menu Campus Solutions Self Service Campus Personal Information Email Addresses. You will see your ‘Campus’ email address in the form: jdoe001@fiu.edu. The characters before ‘@fiu.edu’ is your FIU username.
Your initial password is the first initial of your first name, followed by your Panther ID, and the first initial of your last name. For example: A student named ‘John Doe’ with a Panther ID of ‘1234567’ would be ‘j1234567d’.
Note: If you registered late for a class, your account will be created within the next 24 hours after you have registered. It is your responsibility to maintain a backup of your computer files.
My credentials work on the Linux machines but not the Windows PCs or vice-versa
There are two sets of login credentials. One set is for the Windows PCs and Macs and the other is for the Linux machines. If this is your first time logging in to one of the systems, your username is your FIU username. Your FIU username is the first part of your email address before the ‘@fiu.edu’ and in the form: jdoe001. Your password is the standard initial password which is the initial of your first name, followed by your Panther ID, and the initial of your last name.
For example: A student named ‘John Doe’ with a Panther ID of ‘1234567’ would be ‘j1234567d’.
It takes me a long time to login to the Windows PCs. What can I do to fix this?
The Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences uses roaming profiles. Roaming profiles allow a user’s desktop and application settings to follow them no matter which workstation they login to on the domain. This roaming profile is downloaded to the computer when you login and uploaded back to the server when you log off. The reason it takes you a long time to login is that you have a lot of data in your roaming profile.
Your roaming profile lives in a hidden directory in your home directory called “.ad-profile-win7”. In Windows, C:\Users\ is your Roaming Profile. The most common culprits for slow logins are Dropbox and virtual machines. When installed incorrectly, these can add numerous gigabytes worth of data to your roaming profile which translates to a substantial login time.
The contents of this folder should not be modified while you are logged in to a Windows PC. You will need to SSH in to one of our Unix servers and move or delete the offending folders and or files from your roaming profile.
How do I change my Windows password?
Once your logged in, press CTRL + ALT + DELETE and select the option that says “Change a password”.
How do I change my Linux password?
Once your logged in, open a terminal and type ‘yppasswd’.