Accounts / Authentication and the differences

Regardless of license type authentication needs to be established to use any of the adobe creative cloud applications. When logging into adobe there are two different types of accounts ("Personal Account" and "Company or School Account").

A personal account is necessary if a user has been assigned a Named User License. When a Named User License is assigned the user is sent an email advising them of the assigned license and to setup an adobe personal account. This account must be associated with their UCSD email address.

A company or school account is the portal used for authenticating to any machine that has a Shared Device License. When you select this to authenticate method you will get redirected to campus's Single Sign On Active Directory login page.

NOTE: It has been our experience that on both license platforms users may experience permissions denied errors due to a file that needs editing on the machine.  For information about this file see the following wiki page: https://ucsdcollab.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=26738958