Overview

Guest UTORids can be issued for persons temporarily affiliated with the University of Toronto who don't have a permanent UTORid. A guest UTORid grants an individual person role-based access to university systems, such as wi-fi, VPN services, and libraries. Employees, faculty, and students who have an active record in HRIS or ROSI (or both) will not need a guest UTORid.

Persons who may need a guest UTORid include, but are not limited to:

• Visiting faculty and scholars
• Postdoctoral fellows working at U of T-affiliated hospitals
• Research assistants
• Contractors 

Guest UTORids are only active for the duration of the guest's temporary affiliation with the university, and must be renewed by the department on a yearly basis if the guest needs access for longer than one year.

Request a guest UTORid

To request the creation of a guest UTORid, you must contact your department's Business Officer. Some departments may be able to issue guest UTORids directly. If this is not possible, your Business Officer must submit the request for a guest UTORid to Library Membership Services (LMS).

Instructions for submitting a guest UTORid request can be found on the Library Membership Services webpage under the Affiliated Researchers heading. Only Business Officers can follow this process. Requests must be approved by Library Membership Services before visiting or sending a prospective guest to the LMS service desk, which is located on the second floor of Robarts Library.

Please note that Library Membership Services will not issue guest UTORids for the sole purpose of connecting a device to wi-fi.

More information

If you have questions about the request process for guest UTORids, please contact reader.reg@utoronto.ca.

IT administrators and Business Officers can learn more about UTORid management from KB0015420: UTORauth: Administrative Tools.