What is ONID?
ONID accounts provide:- Email (username@onid.orst.edu, 200MB per user)
- File storage (1GB per user)
- Personal web pages (including MySQL database access)
- UNIX shell access
- Access to other services (wireless network, Blackboard, ResNet, IS computer labs, Interlibrary Loan, plus more)
News and Updates
05.02.2008 - WARNING: Phishing Emails
In the last month, OSU email accounts have been the target of a coordinated phishing attack. Most of you have probably already received an email pretending to be from ONID or OSU computer support. These emails ask for your username or email address and your password.
NEVER GIVE YOUR PASSWORD TO ANYONE
OSU computer support personnel will never ask for your password.
03.19.2008 - Milne Data Center Outage Saturday April 5th 12:01am - 8:00am
All network connections to the Milne Data Center will be down Saturday April 5th from 12:01am to 8:00am. During this time, all servers and equipment in Milne will not be accessible from the network. The main network switch in Milne will be upgraded from a Cisco 6509 to a Cisco 6513.
All ONID services will be unavailable during this time.
02.28.2008 - ONID Mail Maintenance Saturday February 23rd 08:00am - 08:30am
The ONID mail server (imap.onid.oregonstate.edu) will be unavailable from 8:00am to 8:30am on Saturday February 23rd. The mail server software will be upgraded to the latest version of Cyrus IMAPD. Inbound email to ONID addresses will be queued and delivered after the maintenance.
02.11.2008 - ONID Shell Server Downtime Monday February 11th 00:45am - 01:10am
The ONID shell server (shell.onid.oregonstate.edu) was down from 00:45am to 01:10am today to upgrade the operating system and apply a security patch for a Linux kernel vulnerability.
02.08.2008 - ONID-FS Outage Friday February 8th 11:02am - 12:52pm
The ONID-FS file server, which provides Windows, Mac, and FTP access to ONID home directories, was unable to lookup ONID usernames today between 11:02am and 12:52pm. The LDAP service died at 11:02am and was started again at 12:52pm, which resolved the problem.
12.21.2007 - Milne Data Center Outage Saturday December 29th 12:01am - 4:00am
All network connections to the Milne Data Center will be down Saturday December 29th from 12:01am to 4:00am. During this time, all servers and equipment in Milne will not be accessible from the network. Maintenance will be performed on the fiber uplinks from Milne to the core network.
All ONID services will be unavailable during this time.
12.06.2007 - ONID Maintenance Saturday December 15th 8:00am - noon
Maintenance will be performed on the following ONID services Saturday December 15th from 8:00am to noon:
- ONID-FS (Windows, Mac, and FTP access to home directories)
- ONID mail server (imap.onid.oregonstate.edu)
- ONID shell server (shell.onid.oregonstate.edu)
- ONID web server (http://onid.oregonstate.edu)
- ONID personal web pages (http://oregonstate.edu/~username)
- CWS shell server (access.cws.oregonstate.edu by FTP, SFTP, SSH)
During this time, these services will be unavailable. Inbound email to ONID addresses will be queued and delivered after the maintenance.
11.08.2007 - ONID Mail Outage 6:00pm to 8:05pm
The ONID mail server, imap.onid.oregonstate.edu, experienced an outage from 6:00pm to 8:05pm today. All email sent to ONID accounts during that time was queued and delivered after the outage.
The cause of this outage was a disk failure on the SAN. The disk was part of a RAID group with a hot spare and successfully rebuilt using the hot spare. However, one of the ONID mail servers saw errors from the Fiber Channel driver at the time of the failure and did not recover. After the problem was discovered, the server was rebooted and successfully reconnected to the SAN.
10.04.2007 - New Mail Filtering Option Available
It is now possible to have old email automatically deleted from your ONID junk-mail folder. You can specify the number of days of email to keep in your junk-mail (spam) folder and messages older than that threshold will be automatically deleted overnight. With this option enabled, you won't have to bother deleting messages from your junk-mail folder anymore.
Follow these steps to enable it:
- Go to http://onid.oregonstate.edu
- Click on "Login to ONID"
- Login with your ONID credentials
- Click on "Manage Mail" from the left-hand menu
- Check the boxes to "Use Spam Assassin", "Discard obvious spam (messages with scores above 10)", and "Automatically delete messages older than __ days from junk-mail folder"
- Enter the number of days of messages to keep
- Click on the "Modify Spam Assassin Settings" button