Shared Accounts

ME-IT will assist users in setting up group accounts (shared accounts) for computer access. Group accounts allow multiple users in a lab to use a shared computing environment.

An example of the use of shared group accounts:

-A team is running an experiment that another login cannot interrupt. A shared group login would allow everyone on the team to unlock the computer to review the experiment. 

Restrictions on group accounts:

-All shared group accounts cannot have admin access to the computer. Individual user accounts can have admin access, and administrative changes can be tracked to the user account.

-All shared group accounts must have their passwords reset within 365 days of the initial creation. This ensures that outgoing lab members will not maintain access to UM resources.

-All shared group accounts must start with ME-* (ME-SHARED-ACCOUNT is an example). 

-All shared accounts must be on the domain (UMROOT\USER), not local (ME-COMPUTER\USER).

To enable Duo for shared accounts, please visit https://duoad.it.umich.edu/login

To request a shared account, please email me-it@umich.edu