Lost or Forgotten Passwords
If you took the Responsible Computing Quiz and...
- DID NOT change your originally-assigned password: You may recover your password by using New Account Distribution Password Recovery.
- CHANGED your originally-assigned password:
- And you're an undergraduate student: Take your student ID and go in person to the ITC Help Desk during regular business hours.
- And you're any other member of the UVa community: Call (434) 924-3731 or email accounts@virginia.edu from a UVa email account.
Changing Your Password
You must know an existing password to be able to change it.
A Note about NetBadge: When a UVa website needs to know your identity, it automatically redirects you to NetBadge, which is not a UVa computing account. NetBadge can use your password from any of the following UVa systems: Eservices/UVa Exchange Service, Central Mail Service (CMS), Home Directory Service, blue.unix, or the HSC domain.
To control access to applications that use NetBadge, change the password to all of these accounts that you have.
| Computing Account | How to Change Your Password for That Account |
|---|---|
Commonly-Used UVa Computing Accounts |
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| Eservices/UVa Exchange Service |
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| UVa Central Mail Service (CMS) |
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| UVa Gmail with Google Apps |
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| UVa Microsoft Live@edu |
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| Home Directory Service | Follow the procedure outlined above to change your Eservices password. |
| UVaCollab |
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| Instructional Toolkit | Look for links to change your password on the Toolkit homepage. Note that Toolkit is being replaced by UVaCollab as of Spring 2009. |
| blue.unix | Use the passwd command at a UNIX prompt or email your password change request to accounts@virginia.edu. |
Accessing Restricted Resources from Off-Grounds |
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| Personal Certificate for UVa Anywhere Service | Download a new UVa digital certificate. |
| Proxy Server | From Proxy Server Account Management, choose your login method and then you may change your password. |
Research Computing Resources |
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| Research Computing Systems (HPC clusters) |
Follow the procedure outlined above to change your blue.unix password. |
Specialized Website Hosting/Web Applications |
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| Faculty Web Server | Follow the procedure outlined above to change your blue.unix password. |
| Student Council Web Server | Email your password change request to scs-admin@virginia.edu. |
| MySQL Server | MySQL Get/Reset an Account |
| www.web.virginia.edu and fusion.web.virginia.edu | Follow the procedure outlined above to change your Eservices password or email itc-microsystems@virginia.edu. |
Administrative Sites |
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| VPN for Mainframe only (Mercury & Integrated System)
(Information Warehouse users with no Oracle responsibilities) |
Use the VPN for Mainframe Only Password Management page. |
| VPN for Mainframe/Oracle (Mercury & Integrated System)
(Information Warehouse users with Oracle responsibilities) |
Use the VPN for Mainframe/Oracle Password Management page. |
Questions? Problems?
If you have a question regarding these instructions, please call the ITC Help Desk at (434) 924-3731 or email accounts@virginia.edu.
