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<h2>Services</h2>

<p>We offer the same services to both individuals (personal accounts) and groups (group accounts).</p>

<p>Historically group accounts were called 'society accounts', but we changed the
  name to 'group accounts' in 2020 to better reflect their intended usage. Group
  accounts can be used as a shared, non-personal account by any group of individuals
  who hold personal accounts. Group accounts are commonly used by college or
  university societies, but they might also be used to manage research or degree
  projects, social events, academic networks, and any other collaboration.</p>

<p>The guiding motivation behind most SRCF system administration policies is to
provide as much flexibility to users as possible, within the constraints of
security, manageability and affordability.  These policies can often be amended
quickly to accommodate the unforeseen needs of individuals and groups trying to
do something novel.</p>

<p>If you feel that there is a service or application that is not provided at
the moment, please feel free to <a href="contact">request it from the
sysadmins</a>.</p>

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          <li>subdomain URLs:
            <ul>
              <li><strong><span class="var">CRSid</span>.user.srcf.net</strong> for personal accounts</li>
              <li><strong><span class="var">groupname</span>.soc.srcf.net</strong> for group accounts</li>
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          </li>
          <li>use your own domain with a site hosted by us</li>
          <li>server-side scripting in PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby</li>
          <li>a liberal CGI environment (compared to most other hosting in the University, and the internet industry at large)</li>
          <li>Apache server-side includes and <em>.htaccess</em> files</li>
          <li>simple Raven authentication via <em>mod_ucam_webauth</em></li>
          <li>HTTPS certificates to secure your site</li>
          <li>lifelong web address forwarding after you leave the university</li>
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          <li>base email addresses:
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              <li><strong><span class="var">CRSid</span>@srcf.net</strong> for personal accounts</li>
              <li><strong><span class="var">groupname</span>@srcf.net</strong> for group accounts</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>a local mailbox with IMAP and <a href="https://webmail.srcf.net">web-based</a> access</li>
          <li>simple forwarding of mail to an external address</li>
          <li>additional addresses (e.g. <span class="var">CRSid</span>-<span class="var">something</span>@srcf.net) or advanced filtering via forwarding rules</li>
          <li>Mailman mailing lists, with <a href="https://lists.srcf.net/mailman">web-based administration</a></li>
          <li>lifelong email forwarding after you leave the university</li>
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          <li><!--#include virtual="default-quota.html" --> of space for files and web content (and more if required)</li>
          <li><a href="ssh://shell.srcf.net">SSH access</a> to an Ubuntu shell server, so you can experiment with a Linux box to your heart's content</li>
          <li>graphical desktop access via VNC and SSH</li>
          <li>SCP and SFTP access to your files</li>
          <li>a <a href="https://www.srcf.net/terminal/">web-based terminal</a>, so you can access the server and your files with only a web browser</li>
        </ul>
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        <h4 class="card-title"><a href="https://mattermost.srcf.net" target="_blank">Mattermost</a></h4>
        <p>Mattermost is a flexible, open source messaging platform
          that enables secure team collaboration. You can use it for your society, with friends or for any group.</p>
        <ul>
          <li>Real-time collaboration</li>
          <li>Organized conversations in teams and channels</li>
          <li>File, image and link sharing</li>
        </ul>
        <p>Learn more about Mattermost <a href="https://mattermost.com" target="_blank">here</a></p>
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          <li>MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, with <a href="https://www.srcf.net/phpmyadmin/">phpMyAdmin</a> and <a href="https://www.srcf.net/phppgadmin/">phpPgAdmin</a> for web-based management</li>
          <li>an <a href="irc://irc.srcf.net/srcf">IRC server</a> and <a href="https://webchat.srcf.net">web interface</a>, to chat with other members and sysadmins</li>
          <li>a <a href="gopher://gopher.srcf.net">Gopher server</a>, if a web server is too mainstream for you</li>
          <li>friendly and helpful sysadmins and support to help with any issues</li>
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    <p class="lead">All for <em>free</em>?  <strong>Yes</strong> <i class="fa fa-smile-o"></i></p>
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<h3>Personal and group accounts</h3>

<p>Each user of the SRCF has a personal account they can use to login to most
services (shell, files, webmail, and so on).  Prospective members can
<a href="<!--#if expr="${domain_control}" --><!--#echo var="domain_control" --><!--#endif -->/signup">
join the SRCF</a> to create their account.</p>

<p>Group accounts provide a separate space for one or more people (the
account <em>administrators</em>) to share control over hosting files or a
website.  We encourage individuals to become SRCF members in order to host a
  website for a society or group of people.</p>

<p>Any existing user may go ahead and
<a href="<!--#if expr="${domain_control}" --><!--#echo var="domain_control" --><!--#endif -->/signup/society">
create a new group account</a>.  We recommend all group accounts name at
least two administrators &ndash; this will help to maintain continuity of the
account should one of the administrators leave the university.  Admins may be
added or removed at any time, but new admins will need to sign up for a
personal SRCF account if they don't already have one.</p>

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