Please note: IIU resources are within the domain "phiresearchlab.org" and not "cdc.gov" and the two are not connected except via heavily firewalled Internet (via citgo.cdc.gov). Lab Machines (physical and virtual) considered "The rest of the Internet" by CDC due to their experimental nature, so they are not able to VPN into CDC machines. This is also why you are not allowed to have any PII or other sensitive data on lab machines, servers, or services.
IIU Lab Account:
The Main Account for accessing all the IIU resources. Requested via the service desk (or email to InformaticsLab@cdc.gov) and Created in Active Directory by the IIU Infrastructure team and accessed using Windows Authentication or LDAP.
Usually looks like:
- [5-characters of last name]+[two characters of first name].
- Thus Jonathan IIUUser would be iiuusjo.
- The domain is lab\ or @lab.local (lab\iiuusjo or iiuusjo@lab.local)
Passwords changeable via view, can expire or get locked, require an IIU infrastructure admin to unlock or re-activate. We are looking into password self-service portals.
Gets you basic user access to:
- View
- View Desktops
- Dedicated Windows Desktops and Servers
- Linux desktops and servers
- Gitlab, using the IIULab tab.
- JIRA
- Confluence
Can also be used-for access-to (but requires your user being added to a group with specialized permissions):
- IIU VPN
- Certain JIRA projects
- Certain Confluence Spaces
- Linux Server sudo access
JIRA Service Desk / Customer account:
This is the only type of account an IIU customer can create via a web-page, and it only works in JIRA to submit and observe service desk tickets.
Usually looks like an Email Address. Can use JIRA's password reset system.
Gitlab accounts:
This is an account created in Gitlab for users that do not need access to the rest of the IIU space. Several of these were created for users interested in the Hackathon near then end of May 2017.
They usually look like an email address but usually match the requested of the user. Can use Gitlab's Password Reset System.