Accounts

JumpCloud

We use a service called JumpCloud to manage lab user accounts. When you start in the lab, Cindy or you should ask Aaron to create a JumpCloud account for you. You will receive an email from JumpCloud asking you to set up a password. It enforces complexity requirements to ensure our data are kept secure. Never share your account password with anyone else, even other lab members. Everyone working in the lab is permitted an account, so ask Aaron to create an account for newbies rather than sharing your account. This defeats the point of security and violates our ethical commitments to our participants and the university.

You will use your JumpCloud account to log into most computers in the lab, as well as for our file server (NCILNAS) and our compute server on which you run data analysis (Architect). The exception is computers used for experiments (stimulus and EEG recording computers).

Password Reset

If you forget your password, or get locked out (you are locked after a few failed attempts), you will need to go to https://jumpcloud.com to reset your password.

Computers for Running Experiments

Because experiment computers are shared resources, and often multiple people run the same experiment, we use shared logins on the stimulus presentation and EEG recording computers. In general, the account name is "NCIL User" or nciluser and the password is pw-4-NCIL

On Stimulus computers, the best practice is to create a new account for each experiment (or group of related experiments in a larger study). This ensures that everything is configured properly for your experiment, and won't get changed by someone when they start a new experiment. If you create an account for a new study/experiment, please use the pw-4-NCIL password.