Guest accounts

The administration of guest accounts is organised by the individual departments. The departments can independently determine who qualifies for a guest account. The respective IT Identity Manager of the departments makes this decision and assigns an account to the guest.

Usually, guest accounts are awarded to the following groups of people:

     

  • visiting scientists (PhD, postdocs, scientists and professors) during their stay or thereafter
  • scientists whose JGU account benefits the JGU with the provison that the JGU does not become a service provider
If you would like to open a guest account, please contact am-iph@uni-mainz.de . We also need name and date of birth to clearly associate you with your account.

These data are transmitted to the ZDV who can then use them for identification, the am-iph team does not save this data.
It is also helpful to identify the reason for the guest account and name a contact person at the JGU.

For the guest account you get an initial password, which you can use to set your password. The initial password as well as the password you assigned can not be restored and can only be changed by you.

The account is unique per person and the validity is 1 year . It can be renewed indefinetely for one year with a short justification .

Only the e-mail address associated with the account receive an e-mail several weeks before the expiration announcing the imminent closure. With a message to am-iph@uni-mainz.de the account can be extended. After 6 months after expiration the account will be permanently deleted.

If you have forgotten the password, a new initial password can be assigned. In this case, contact the am-iph team and come by in person.

Contact: am-iph@uni-mainz.de

Please note that in these cases the ZDV is responsible:

  • The accounts of regular employees of the university (also future ones) are managed centrally by the personnel department. The IT Identity Manager can neither see if a person has an account (already), nor can the account be extended or changed by the Identity Manager. Only after the account has expired regularly (with termination of the contract), the account will be converted into a guest account.
    Similar regulations apply to student accounts.
  • Guest accounts only for Wifi access (for example, conferences, workshops, etc.) can be requested directly from the ZDV. The ZDV creates a central account for this purpose for a limited period, which has no other permissions (no home directory, etc.).
  • Doctoral students will bee assigned an account in the field of doctoral candidates since 01.09.2018, which is also managed centrally.
  • Former professors get a guest account which do not have to be renewed regularly. The account will be renew automatically if the account is used regularly (at least every 6 weeks).