All,
You are getting this email because you are presently enrolled in one or more
CIS*#### courses offered by the School of Computer Science (i.e. CIS*1000,
CIS*1200, CIS*1500, ...). In order to use our lab facilities you were granted
an account on our systems. This account is separate and independent of your
central login account which is maintained by CCS (for gryph mail and the
like).
In order to deal with a number of issues that are being reported by people
attempting to access our systems, it has become necessary to reset all of the
undergraduate passwords for the School of Computer Science systems. At about
noon tomorrow (Friday September 17, 2009), your password will be reset to your
7-digit student number.
Those of you who did not change your password after logging into our labs for
the first time will not notice this change. For everyone else, we apologize
for the inconvenience. If you wish to change your password (which we strongly
encourage), please login to windows on one of the terminals in one of our
labs, then press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and select "Change Password...", then follow
the prompts. Please note that your new password will be subject to the
following strength requirements:
- The minimum length is 6 characters
- Can not be all lowercase characters, uppercase characters, numbers, or
punctuation. If your password is normally all lower case characters,
capitalizing one letter is enough to satisfy this requirement.
- Can not be a word in the dictionary (or a proper name).
For those of you who would normally change your password through linux, you
will also need to use the windows password change. This is due to a bug in
Heimdal's kpasswdd implementation which causes the password change to fail.
We are working on a code patch to deal with this issue, and hope to have it
resolved shortly.
--
James E. Stark B.Sc. (Eng.)
Systems Analyst
School of Computer Science
University of Guelph
