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NetIDs
All Yale University students, faculty and staff members are assigned a NetID. Your NetID is automatically assigned to you by Human Resources. Your NetID can not be changed. Your Yale NetID and password act as your passport to the campus network and allows access to many University systems, such as:
- Banner - Student Systems (addresses, holds, account balances, grades, and financial aid data)
- Classes and Classesv2 servers
- Dial up access to the Yale network
- Email through POP or IMAP from servers named NetID.mail.yale.edu
- Pantheon
- Printing in AM&T computing clusters
- YALE Windows NT domain, which allows users to access cluster PCs
Note: Yale NetIDs and passwords are case sensitive.
- In order to use your NetID password, you must first activate your NetID with a PIN.
Eligibility
Authorized personnel in each department handle account requests for faculty and staff. You must have an active HR record to have access.
Business office approval is required for: associate, casual, consultant, layoff, post doc associate, research affiliate, retiree, vendors, visitors or other special employees. Departments may include consultants or other non-paid staff by first entering them into the Human Resources system with an assignment of non-employee access.
NetIDs are not available to employee's spouses, children or to people auditing Yale classes.
Responsible / generic NetID's
Responsible NetID's
There has been a past practice of requesting the creation of responsible NetID's for individuals who do work for Yale but are not paid through the payroll system. The same requests have also been received regarding causal employees. This document is intended to clarify that “responsible NetID's” should not be requested, or created.
Generic NetID's (kerberos DB)
Official University policy: All entries should have a corresponding HR people file entry. Although the rule has been bent on occasion, account creation other then NetID is highly discouraged due to security, auditing, and administration reasons. Whenever a responsible NetID is created using the Web based tool a corresponding Yale NT account is also created.
Generic email accounts
A common reason for generic / responsible NetID's is the need for a general departmental email account. Generic accounts must have a person responsible assigned to them and will be given a responsible NetID.
Generic Yale domain accounts
Official University policy: All accounts with the exception of service accounts must be a users NetID. This policy is based on security, audit and administration issues.
See also: NetIDs for a non-Yale employee
