Authentication Services in Central Servers

The CIS Division provides the Technion members with a central authentication system named "Technion Authentication". Owners of these accounts get access to Technion central servers and services ןn accordance with their permissions on these systems.

Technion account has three components:

  1. Username - chosen by the user in accordance with the convention.
  2. Password - to choose according to the these guidelines.
  3. Secret code - delivered in writing to the user upon opening the account.

Account opening

Account opening in the authentication system is done for each users group in the responsible office:

  1. For undergraduate students - according to the Undergraduate School guidelines.
  2. For graduate students - by the guidelines of the Graduate School.
  3. Technion and Technion Research & Development Foundation administrative staff -opened by the human resources departments at the Technion and the TRDF.
  4. Faculty members - opened by the Office of Academic Affairs .

Account opening and maintenance

Users can manage their accounts using a self-service account maintenance system at
http://cc-account.technion.ac.il
Authentication is done using an ID number and a valid password. The password can be recovered using the ID number and the secret code.

Support

The FAQ replies collection, The Support Center at phone 5600 and the http://5600.technion.ac.il site are available to the user.

E-mail services

Academic and administrative staff - opening a Technion authentication account  enables the use of the Technion e-mail system with username@technion.ac.il, with access to the  http://webmail.technion.ac.il e-mail server.

Technion graduate and undergraduate students - e-mail services are provided by the Microsoft Office 365 cloud services. The e-mail address is username@campus.technion.ac.il, and access to Office 365 is at -
http://mail.campus.technion.ac.il . This address will remain available to the student after graduating together with the e-mail address username@alumni.technion.ac.il

Central servers

Among servers and services that may be used with central authentication one can find:

Updated: 02/09/2015 , 13:28