Domain account

A server account is a type of user access to YSTV computer systems. It is required in order to do certain things on the system. In brief: if you have a firstname.lastname@ystv.co.uk email address, you have a server account.

Technical details

A 'server account' is our own esoteric name for an account in Active Directory (a Windows domain account), which by its nature has a home directory (in \home on ystvweb) and an email mailbox with a firstname.lastname@ystv.co.uk email address, and can be used to log on to the Windows PCs and SSH into the Linux servers. The term is used to differentiate these domain accounts from website accounts, which have the same username as the user's IT Services network account and only exist in the website database. When logging into the website, a user's server account aliases to their website account - so either may be used.

Server accounts are generally given to prolific/frequent/active members of YSTV at the discretion of the Computing Team, usually so that they can have an email address and home directory; but they also confer other benefits such as web space.