All students, faculty, and academic staff are eligible to get a free ROHAN account. If you are a student and wish to get a ROHAN email account, login to the WebPortal and click on the button titled Get a ROHAN/Email account .
The account information will be displayed on the screen, and will be emailed to your email address on file with the WebPortal. Your Rohan account is active until one semester after you graduate or otherwise leave the university. Please note that class accounts expire at the end of the course semester.
Rohan accounts have 50 MB of space for
a personal web page or file storage, and 20 MB of space for e-mail. All files
in your account are backed up and can be restored. Email,
that has NOT been saved into folders, is not backed up and cannot be
restored once deleted. Rohan gives you access to
compilers, compression utilities, editors, and other software.Your
Rohan account is not an Internet service provider,
but can be accessed from any Internet connection.
For Faculty/Staff, Department, Student Organization or Class accounts, go to Obtaining a ROHAN Computer Account .
If you are a student and wish to change your ROHAN password, login to the WebPortal and click on the button titled Get a ROHAN/Email account. The Create your free SDSU e-mail account page will be displayed. Click the Continue button at the bottom of the page.
Your E-Mail address and username will be displayed, followed by the link Click here to change your Rohan account password. Click the link to change your password.
After you change your password, the new password will be displayed on the screen, and will be emailed to your email address on file with the WebPortal.
Passwords will NOT be accepted that:
* Are less than 6 characters long.
* Matches your last name or account name
* Are found in the system's spelling dictionary - unless it has some
uppercase letters other than the first character. For example,
"Explain" would be rejected but "exPlain" would be accepted.
* Have more than 3 repeated characters - thus "aaa" would be rejected.
If you need assistance, go to the Student Computing Center in LL-200.
For Faculty/Staff, Department, Student Organization or Class accounts, login to Rohan using ssh and type passwd at the shell prompt. #### Faculty accounts must obtain their instructors signature on the form before a password change can be processed for such accounts are in the instructors name. Student Organization and Departmental account password changes must also be requested by the account own/ contact person.
-If you are having trouble Sending E-mail through an e-mail application such as Outlook or Eudora, you need to set-up your
application to send the SMTP server through port 8025 instead of the default 25. A tutorial is available to show you how to
set-up your e-mail client correctly available here.
Sendmail released a public announcement on how attackers can remotely exploit a computer running sendmail on 3/3/2003. Rohan's sendmail was upgraded to prevent attacks from this exploit. This has changed the authentication method used for relaying email thru Rohan. Rohan requires authentication if you wish to relay email. Relaying is sending email to addresses not in the .sdsu.edu domain (ie: aol.com or cox.net) via Rohan's SMTP server. There are several errors you may see if you are not authenticating:
Greylisting in action, please come back later
Relaying denied. Proper authentication required
Relaying temporarily denied. Cannot resolve PTR record for 207.62.119.030