Visitor Accounts

To access Informatics machines and services, visitors to the school will require a DICE account.

Local Visitors - current UoE staff/students - Staff and students of elsewhere in UoE collaborating with Informatics. They should not be registered in the University Visitor Registration system (VRS) as they already have a University account and username (UUN). To request a DICE account for a Local Visitor, the member of staff acting as host should submit the Informatics Visitor Registration Form to Institutes-Admin who will add their details to the Informatics School Database (theon) which then triggers generation of a DICE account.

External visitors - Anyone who is working or studying on University premises but who is not registered either by HR on Main Payroll, or by Registry on the student systems. A visitor may also be a person remotely collaborating with a staff member.

• To request an account for an external visitor, the member of staff acting as host should submit the Informatics Visitor Registration Form which reaches Institutes-Admin.
• Institutes-Admin will register the details on the University Visitor Registration system (VRS). Your visitor will then be able to register with Your University Login (formerly known as EASE), and then use Eduroam Wifi Service.
• Visitor details will automatically feed from VRS to the Informatics School database - however a DICE account can only be generated once Institutes-Admin have completed the database record with the sponsor details and ticked the 'DICE' account required box.

Additional info

• Before being provided with account details, your visitor must agree to abide by the University's Computing Regulations.
• Informatics Policy on visitors.
• The DICE account will entitle them to 5GB of afs home directory space. Any other requirements such as ssh access to specific servers/clusters should be requested via the support form.
• Should your visitor require the use of a DICE desktop machine within an office, please let Computing Support know as soon as possible so that this can be arranged.
• Please note that Computing Support staff do not have authorisation to create visitor accounts, so all requests must go via Institutes-Admin.
• Do please give as much notice as possible about visitors. None of the above steps take particularly long but a 48 hour period should be expected to allow for the entry to be made in the VRS and then approved by a Service Manager. The feed from VRS then takes place overnight and a DICE account would be created the next again day.