Forget Your Password/Want to Change It?

By Rick Millhollin (rickm@oregon.uoregon.edu)

Beginning this term, several important new password policies are going into effect:

• students will be able to change their passwords online
• password changes will not be accepted over the phone
• all new accounts on VMS (OREGON) and UNIX (GLADSTONE, DARKWING) will be created with "pre-expired" passwords (i.e., passwords that must be changed the first time you log in)

Changing Your Password Online (Students Only): Computing Center staff has developed a utility that allows students to change their own passwords online if they have forgotten them. The new program, like AUTHORIZE, requires student ID and PAC numbers. Instructions for using the online system are posted at http://cc.uoregon.edu/uopassword.html

Note: When the BANNER Human Resources Information System module goes into effect in January, 1999, UO faculty and staff will also be able to change their passwords online.

Changing Your Password at the Computing Center: For security reasons, the downstairs reception staff will not accept password change requests by phone. Instead, those wishing to change their passwords must come to the Help Desk in the Computing Center's south entryway and present a UO photo ID. Out-of-area users may fax a request memo, with a copy of their photo ID, to (541) 346-6836.

Note: Passwords changed through the Help Desk are not pre-expired on either UNIX or VMS.

Questions?

For more information about password policies, see http://cc.uoregon.edu/uopassword.html