UIT enforces periodic password changes to all accounts on UIT machines - this can result in cron jobs not being authenticated, resulting in increased logs and potential service interruptions.

Service Account should not (davidyim: should verify this) require periodic password changes (you cannot ssh into this account) - therefore cron jobs will not expire. Also, Service Account belongs to communications and www-data so you can change permissions on files written by browsers.

How Do I Log into Service Account?

1. SSH into studentsv2.uit with your credentials
2. su -s /bin/bash serviceaccount (password is in /var/www/serviceaccount.password)
3. exit to get back to your account