About

The Account Management Service is designed to help University of Missouri students, faculty, staff, and guests create and manage their computing accounts and passwords. Your account with the University of Missouri is called your Username (also referred to as a Single Sign-On or SSO ID) and is the primary form of authentication to access most MU technology resources. You are assigned a username when you enroll as a student or begin employment with the University.

Eligible Users:

Students

To be eligible for computing resources, students must meet at least one of the following criteria:

• enrolled for the current or a future semester
• admitted for a future semester
• employee in a student employee title
• documented exception (verified by the Division of IT)

Faculty/Staff

To be eligible for computing resources, an individual must meet at least one of the following criteria

• Employed as a faculty or staff member
  • COLUMBIA or UM System business unit personnel are eligible for the UM-AD domain (unless otherwise specified below)
  • HOSPITAL business unit personnel, Columbia School of Medicine, School of Health Professions and School of Nursing departmental personnel are eligible for the UMHS-USERS domain
• A documented exception (verified by the Division of IT)

Resource and Service Accounts

Resource accounts are an identity assigned to a department as required for a specific business function or task. The most common use of a Resource account is as a mailbox.

Service accounts are an identity assigned to a system, application or electronic service used for the purpose of authenticating and accessing directory systems.

To retain a resource account the following information must be on file with the Division of IT:

• A documented sponsor, the sponsor must be employed by the university
• A purpose or use for the account documented
• A valid expiration date, up to one year in the future

Visitor Accounts

A Visitor to the University of Missouri or University Hospital is defined as:

1. Any nonaffiliated individual with a need for network access for a period greater than 30 days OR
2. Any nonaffiliated individual with a need for one or more of the following Telecom & IT Resources regardless of the duration of requested access to:
   • Sensitive University data
   • Email account
   • ID cards
   • Software purchases
   • Other IT Resources (Ex: Cerner, IDX Accounts)

The Visitor’s sponsoring department is responsible for the processes required to obtain Visitor access to University resources.