Instructional Computing

Edoras.sdsu.edu is a CentOS 7 server at San Diego State University. The mission of EDORAS is to enhance instructional support at SDSU by providing Faculty and Students academic computing resources for classwork and instruction.

For information and assistance with research computing, including specialized storage and computation, high-performance computing (HPC), visualization, and lab-management systems, visit the IT Division's Research and Cyberinfrastructure page.

ACCOUNTS

EDORAS provides Linux shell accounts with access to various software applications, Apache web server, compilers, and databases. Faculty may obtain EDORAS accounts for themselves and their students. EDORAS has replaced ROHAN for instructional support accounts.

Class Accounts

Class Accounts are requested by faculty and are normally available only for the semester issued. They have the form of aascnnnn, ie: cssc0123. The account sponsor may issue new passwords for a sponsored account and can access the files in a sponsored account, using the sg and usrpass commands. Class accounts expire on May 30 for the spring semester, December 30 for the fall semester, and August 30 for the summer semester.

Faculty can send an email to [email protected] to request a class account.

  • Name of the class and section (i.e. CS101 section 2)
  • Number of class accounts needed
  • Size if more than 200MB needed per account
  • Department name:
  • Faculty campus phone:
  • EDORAS faculty account username:

Faculty Accounts

Faculty Accounts are requested by professors to manage their class accounts, or for their own use. Faculty Accounts expire when the professor leaves SDSU unless requested otherwise by emeritus faculty. The default disk quota is 1GB.

Faculty-Sponsored Accounts are accounts requested by teaching faculty for students who are working on special projects. Professors may use their EDORAS faculty account to issue a new password for a sponsored account, and can access the files in a sponsored account. Faculty-sponsored accounts are expired by default each year at the end of the Fall semester. Faculty may request an expiration date of over a year. The default disk quota is 1GB.

Faculty can send an email to [email protected] to request a Faculty or Faculty-sponsored account. Be sure to include the following information in the email:

  • Your name:
  • Department Name:
  • Campus phone number:
  • Account name preferred (up to 9 letters):
  • If requesting a Sponsored account, provide your Edoras account name:

SOFTWARE DOWNLOADS

Students may download ArcGIS, Comodo, EndNote, Matlab, SAS, SPSS and X-Win32 with valid SDSUid credentials. Faculty may also download Comodo, Matlab and X-Win32.

Popular Software Downloads

Additional software available to EDORAS accounts

  • Apache web server with PHP 7.2 providing edoras.sdsu.edu/~username webpages.
  • Compilers: APL, C, C++, Cobol, Fortran, Java, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Prolog, Python, Scala, Scheme
  • Databases: Mariadb, Oracle sqlplus client
  • Debuggers: ddd, gdb, splint
  • Editors: emacs, xemacs, nano, nedit, vi, vim
  • Internet: chrome, curl, firefox, lynx, ssh, sftp, wget
  • Shells: bash, ksh, tcsh, zsh
  • Revision Control: cvs, git, rcs, sccs, svn

Faculty and staff may request software (Adobe, EndNote, SAS, SPSS, Zoom, etc.) from the ServiceNow, using SDSUid credentials.

EDORAS POLICIES

EDORAS Class Accounts EXPIRE at the end of the semester unless your professor has made other arrangements. Class accounts are archived at the end of each semester prior to removal. Archives are kept for 18 months. Faculty may contact [email protected] if they need access to an archived class account's files.

View the EDORAS usage policies under Student Responsibilities for Academic Computer Use.

SDSU POLICIES

View the SDSU computing policy under SDSU Acceptable Use Policy.

About EDORAS

EDORAS, the Academic Computing Server at San Diego State University, is administered by Information and Digital Technologies staff in the Library. The mission of EDORAS is to enhance the instructional mission at San Diego State University by providing to the Faculty, and Students academic computing resources for classwork and research.

The EDORAS name is taken from the capital city of Rohan from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth saga "Lord of the Rings". Rohan's inhabitants were a nomadic and highly skilled equestrian people.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those that wander are lost.
--- J. R. R. Tolkien ---