Personal Web Accounts & Disk Space

Students, faculty and staff can publish personal web pages using their network services account. You can connect to the home.utah.edu web server using FTP, SFTP, SSH2, or any of several web-publishing tools. CGI capability is also available. There are some restrictions:

  1. You cannot use your home.utah.edu account for commercial purposes (like running a small e-business or consulting practice).
  2. You cannot use your account for illegal purposes (like running a pornography site or hate site).
  3. You need to use less than 10 Mb of disk space.
  4. FTP works from campus computers, but not from off-campus. The server home.utah.edu now requires a SFTP connection for any IP space that is not trusted. 

What can you publish?

For starters, put your resume on-line. Let your future employer know you're Internet savvy. Publish pictures of your pets or your last vacation with the gang. Have fun with it and learn more about the Internet in the process.

One word of caution. The Internet is wide open to both good and bad. Protect yourself by protecting your personal information. When you put your resume online, consider carefully whether or not to include phone number or address information. In an electronic world, your e-mail address is probably sufficient.

Check out the How do I set up my webspace FAQ for information on how to set up a web site on the home.utah.edu server.

Network ID Format

To access your home.utah.edu file space, you need to use your originally assigned Network ID and its corresponding password.

Prior to May 2002, University of Utah students, staff and faculty received a Network ID, or NID, in this format: jpd5. Since May 2002, new students, staff and faculty received a NID in this format: u0012345. The numbers are your student or employee ID, where the first zero has been replaced with the letter ‘u’. This new format is known as a uNID. Everyone has a new “uNID”. If you became a University of Utah campus member after May 2002, you do not have a Network ID in the old format.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I set up my webspace? FAQ

CGI Information

For more information on web accounts, please call the Campus Help Desk at 1-4000, option 1.