Temporary guest accounts for use on the TAMU College Station network are available under the following conditions:
Requests for accounts must be made by a sponsoring TAMU or TAMU affiliate department for a valid University business purpose as determined by the Department Head or equivalent. For example, visiting faculty or other official guests, conference attendees, vendors presenting or working in the department.
An email request should be sent to account-services@tamu.edu and should include the following information:
- name of the sponsoring department
- brief description of the relevant event or reason for the guest id
- name and NetID of the departmental sponsor requesting the account for the guest
- name, phone number, and email address of the guest
- starting and ending dates & times that the access is desired. Note: accounts will not extend past August 31 of any year.
- type of service(s) required - tamulink-guest wireless, vpn, modems, Resnet network
There is no charge for a temporary guest ID.
To ensure that the guest accounts can be created and issued in time, the request should be sent at least 48 hours before the needed date.
A guest account ID should only be issued to a single individual and may not be reused.
Departments with a need for a pool of account ID's (e.g., Evans Library) should discuss their requirements with Account Services.
For security reasons, the requesting department is responsible for keeping a log of issued guest accounts for a minimum of 30 days after each guest account deactivation date. The log should include the issued ID, the name of the person a guest account is issued to, their contact information (email, phone, address), and a brief description of why the account was issued.
Example:
ID123456, 01/01/2007-01/02/2007, John Doe, john-doe@vendor.com, vendor company name & address, account issued to vendor salesman making presentation to department head.