A request for a staff web account or permissions to resources on the lan can be submitted via the New Staff
Account Request Form. Please submit the request before the new staff member
begins work. The LAN ID will be the person's PAWS ID, which is usually the
first initial, part of the last name, and sometimes ending with
numeral(s).
To find available training options, please check LSU's training portal
here.
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Graduate assistants and student assistants are usually assigned generic LAN
IDs, so the LAN Administrator is not constantly requesting accounts
creation and deletion from the ITS Help Desk. If you have a new graduate
assistant or student assistant in your area, give them the ID that was used
by the person they are replacing. If you do not remember the password for
that generic ID, the supervisor in whose name the account resides can
change it in PAWS, Personal Preferences, Password Management.
If there are no generic IDs available for your department, submit a request
via the New Staff Account Request Form. The IDs all start with LIB and will
usually incorporate an abbreviation of a department name and a number
(e.g., libcat, libhrr, etc.).
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If you or one of your employees do not have access to something on the LAN that you should, contact the LAN Administrator. Tell the LAN Administrator if access to the resource is based on something other than your department (e.g., you need member access
to committee files). This will help ensure you get full access to all resources, rather than just one folder or file.Top
- Changing your password - Your LAN password is now the same as your PAWS password. To change it, log
on to PAWS, click on Personal Preferences, click on PAWS Password Change.
(Do NOT change it by doing a Ctrl-Alt-Del.) You will see that it says "If
you change your PAWS password using the fields below and you also have an
LSU Windows domain account, this NEW password will be applied to your PAWS
and Windows accounts. If you are currently logged into your Windows
account, you should logoff and logon with your new password. If you are
unsure whether this applies to you or if you need further assistance,
please contact the Help Desk at helpdesk@lsu.edu or (225) 578-3375." and
"The security of your PAWS account is directly related to the strength of
your password. Good passwords are the simplest and most
important part of information security. To test your password's strength,
SecurityStats.com has a strength meter based on industry best practices."
- Forgotten password - Call the ITS Help Desk (8-3375).
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If you have locked your account by providing an incorrect password, it
should unlock in approximately 5-10 minutes. For further assistance, call
the ITS Help Desk (8-3375). Library Systems can unlock it but we cannot
provide a new password.
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