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.