Any Rutgers student from New Brunswick campus whose name appears in the Rutgers Online Directory (People Data Base) can create an account on eden. Students from Graduate School of Management, College of Nursing, and School of Social Work are also qualified. Rutgers Online Directory is an online address, telephone, e-mail directory. It can take more than a week for an entry to appear in the directory after a student has paid his/her term bill. Once an entry is posted, a unique identifier called IID will be assigned to represent the entry. Your IID is made up of your initials and a number.

Choosing a Username 

As part of the account creation process, you will be asked to choose a unique username.  Your username, once chosen, will stay with you as long as you are at Rutgers.  So be sure to choose wisely.  If you have a UNIX account on another Rutgers system, or if you had a UNIX account on a Rutgers system in the past, your old username is still on file and may be assigned to you automatically.  There are rules for username selection.  They are as follows:

• A username must start with a lowercase letter.


• The length of a username is between 2 and 8 characters.


• It can consist of lowercase letters and numbers.


• Unless it is your IID, your username cannot consist of a series of letters followed by a series of numbers. For example, neither abced3 nor xy56 is a valid username if your IID is dr56.

The creation process will give you  some examples of acceptable usernames, including your IID.  Typically, you can use your last name, your IID, or a combination of your initials and last name to form a username.  If the username you select is already in use, the system will ask you to make another selection.

Please choose your username carefully.  This name will be part of your electronic mail address you use for correspondence.  In almost all cases, you will not be allowed to change your username at a later date simply because it is unprofessional or embarrassing.

Choosing a Secure Password

After your username has been accepted by the system, you will be asked to provide a password. There are rules governing password selection.  It is important to construct a password that is easy to remember and adheres to the following rules.

• Your password must be at least 6 but no more than 8 characters.
• Your password must contain a minimum of 3 character classes. The characters on the keyboard are grouped into categories known as classes. They are as follows:


             Lowercase letters (a-z) 
             Uppercase letters (A-Z) 
             Numerals (0-9) 
             Special characters (e.g. $ * ) 


• The password cannot contain any 4 consecutive characters from your name or IID (i.e. your initials).

Creating a password that contains a minimum of 3 character classes means that you must include one character from at least 3 of the different categories.  For example, JMH+0824 would be a valid password because it includes uppercase characters, a special character, and numbers.  Another example is Jmh0824 which has upper and lower case letters and numbers.

Note:  For your own security, do not use either of the above passwords.

How to Create an Account 

Creating an account on Eden is done through a web-based interface. There are several ways to access it:

• From a Campus Computing Center PC
  (Note: Users will need to createtheir accounts on a Windows PC): 
   
  1. In the white logon box with the Rutgers logo make sure Student is selected in the small Account Type pull-down menu.
  2. Click once on Make Account.
  3. After the the Office of Information Technology Account Creation page appears, enter your information into the fields on the screen then click on the CreateAccount button.

• From an off-campus commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP):
   
  1. If your ISP does not automatically connect you to the Web, launch your Web browser.
  2. In the Address or Location window enter http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/rats/rats.cgi and click on Go or press Enter/Return.
  3. After the the Office of Information Technology Account Creation page appears, enter your information into the fields on the screen then click on the CreateAccount button.

Creating your account

After you reach the Create Account screen, read the bulleted information and follow those instructions. Enter your information into the fields on the web page.

If you make a mistake you can re-renter your information by clicking on the Reset button. If you want to change your information on the previous screen, click on the Back button.

Enter your first and last names as they appear on your Student ID, your Social Security number without dashes, and your birth date in a month-day-year format also without dashes (MMDDYYYY). To protect your privacy, your Social Security number and birth date will not be displayed on the screen. Please type carefully to ensure accuracy. Then click on CreateAccount.

Next you will need to enter a password. (See Choosing a Secure Password in the previous section for details.) Enter your new password twice, then click on CreateUsername. If this is your first account at Rutgers, your e-mail address will be added to the Rutgers Online Directory. If you are opening an additional account and already have an address listed, you will be asked if you want to display your new email address instead.

After all your information is entered successfully, you should see a page with Your account was created successfully! across the top. Your account should be available for use in about 15 minutes.

Additional Help

If you are in a Campus Computing Center, contact the consultant on duty.  Otherwise, contact the OIT/NBCS Help Desk at 732-445-HELP(4357) or go to the following: http://www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/helpdesk. The OIT/NBCS Help Desk is located in Room 013, Hill Center, Busch Campus.