Authentication
For the usage of data services of TU Dresden and the Faculty, the authentication with a personal access code and with a secure password system is necessary. This relates not only to the services such as email or access to the data, but also the access to the data network of TU Dresden itself, which is made available for the workers and the students of the university as a “closed user group”. For the access to specially protected resources, the secure authentication is necessary (e.g. 2-factor authentication).
The aim is to make all proposed services and accesses with university-wide user code available. Currently, the login with different usernames particularly in the following sections is necessary:
User ID of ZIH / TU Dresden
For the university-wide provided services of ZIH such as e.g. email (Exchange), WLAN (Eduroam), VPN, OPAL and WebCMS redaction system.
The access data are available by all workers and students with the recruitment or matriculation.
User ID of the Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry
For the faculty-wide provided services such as access to home-, groups-, the program- and data drives, central saved settings and profiles, the data synchronization with the mobile devices as well as the usage of administration rights e.g. for the software distribution. The access data are received by workers from the administrator of professorship, students within the briefing and instruction in the study course “computer application in chemistry” in the first study semester.
User ID for local devices
For the sign in on PC and thereby the use of local installed Software and the access to the campus network and internet. It is true only for the terminal devices, which are not linked through the dynamical user guidelines on the identity management of the Faculty. The responsible administrators manage the local user accounts of the business devices.
Current status and further development
The Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry offers for a long time the provision on the guidelines for configuration of dynamic local users. Thereby the necessity to foster the local user accounts on the terminal devices can be omitted. Primarily in computer pools and other surroundings with continuously changing users, this is the only possibility for the consistent and secure user management.
In the recent years, ZIH has intensified the endeavors to link the external Systems with the central identity management. The project which is aiming to make it possible to use the ZIH user identification also for the authentication on the resources of the Faculty is currently on the testing stage.