Every student at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences has an Oamk account; a user name and related password. You need your account e.g. when you want to read your email, log in to the Oamk data systems e.g. Students intranet Oiva and map your home directory (to a Windows computer at the school network) Students […]

Adobe Acrobat PDF – Portable Document Format PDF is a common document format used widely in the web. Also many documents at web pages by OUAS are available in PDF. PDF files are typically meant for delivering printable documents with a strict layout. PDF files are used widely and PDF readers work at least on […]

Joni Liikala and Anna-Liisa Mattila. 17.8 2018   1. From Office 365, choose the Settings icon in the upper- right corner. Select Mail. 2. You can find Email Signature under the Layout-menu. Set the signature and settings and click on Save. Traditionally a signature has four lines of text with a maximum of 80 characters […]

We provide IT services for the students and staff of the OUAS. Each unit has either local service at hand or at least IT services can be contacted for fast service during office hours. Our responsibilities include computers and other IT related devices, data networks and we also administrate the user databases (both students and […]

Mailing lists – what are they? Mailing lists are collections of e-mail addresses that are used when sending material to multiple recipients. Some lists are public and anyone can join them and some are closed lists, meant for a certain group only. In the OUAS, each group of students has its own mailing list. Students’ […]

Salasanasuojaus webissä Voit halutessasi tehdä public_html-hakemistoosi tai sen alihakemistoon salasanasuojauksen. Suojaus on yhtä turvallinen kuin Telnet-yhteys: Salasanat kulkevat verkossa koodattuna, mutta tarpeeksi halutessaan joku voisi purkaa koodauksen hyvin helposti. Eli mistään todella turvallisesta systeemistä ei ole kyse, mutta tämän asteen suojaus riittää varsin hyvin moneen tarkoitukseen. .htpasswd Hakemistossa, joka halutaan suojata luodaan salasanatiedosto seuraavalla käskyllä: htpasswd -c .htpasswd […]

SSH – Secure Shell Tavallisilla pääteohjelmilla, kuten Telnetillä, siirtyy tieto selväkielisinä verkon yli, tämä koskee myös salasanoja. SSH:ta suositellaan käytettäväksi aina, kun yhteys otetaan turvattoman verkon yli. Suojaamatonta yhteyttä voidaan salakuunnella muilta verkossa olevilta tietokoneilta. Nykyään useimmissa palvelimissa on estetty Telnet-yhteyksien käyttö oman verkon ulkopuolelta tulevilta yhteyksiltä. Oamkin palvelimille (kuten students ja staff) ei voi […]

junk mail a.k.a “spam” Junk mail can be very annoying, especially if you get tens or maybe hundreds of them in your inbox daily. We use Greylisting to get rid of most of the junk Addresses that end with *@staff.oamk.fi, *@students.oamk.fi *@oamk.fi have now used grylisting wince 2007 and it has dramatically helped to reduce […]