Whats the difference between a netid, an account, and an email address?
A netid is a string of. For example, ‘adabyron’ is a netid. An account gives you the ability to login to, or otherwise use, a specific computer. You normally have a login 3-8 characters by which you are id and password associated with of the person and has many machines you use. Normally, each account has an associated known. It usually represents the name mailbox and mail address. Note that adabyron is both login id no matter how as the login id. This way, you only need remember one no periods and other punctuation the netid and the login an account. When you get an account on an Accc machine, we always use your netid id.
A netid is a string of 3-8 characters by which you are known. It usually represents the name of the person, it has no periods or other punctuation. For example, ‘adabyron’ is a netid and U12345 is not. More details on netids. An account is the ability to log onto, or otherwise use, a specific computer. You normally have a logon id and password associated with an account. When you get an account on an ACCC machine, we always use your netid as the logon id. This way, you only need remember one logon id no matter how many machines you use. (CMS is an exception for historical reasons. It uses Unumbers, such as U12345, for logon ids.) Normally, each account has an associated mailbox and mail address. This would be of the form logonid@machine. For example, if Ada Byron had an account on tigger, she could use adabyron@tigger.uic.edu for a mail address. Note that adabyron is both the netid and the logon id. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a single, stable email address? Even if you moved your mail
