Wheaton Electronic Service Password Practice

A new, stricter password practice wentinto effect for all members of Wheaton community in April 2004. This new practice requires you to change your password every 6 months. You will start receiving reminders by email if your password is 170 days or older. Please note that the passwords you have used in the past are not acceptable.

A new password must.....

• contain at least 8 characters
• must not contain more than 15 characters
• cannot contain special characters (you can use letters and numbers)
• must contain at least 2 numbers
• must contain at least 1 capital letter
• cannot be a previously used password
• must be reset every 6 months (you will receive a warning after 170 days if you have not changed it)

The new password practice will at first only apply to accessing email and network file storage. Over time, more services will be incorporated into this infrastructure (like Blackboard for example). See below for instructions on how to change those passwords as well.

In addition it is recommended that you...

• Keep all your passwords private.
• Until we are able to provide a more robust, single sign-on authentication environment, please use different passwords for the various Wheaton systems you access Banner, email, Meeting Maker, Blackboard, etc. It is particularly important to keep your Banner and WINDOW passwords separate from your others given the sensitivity to the information housed there.
• Never share your password or request it over the phone.
• Do not allow a computer, or a service provider, to automatically save your password.
• Do not make your passwords from any words or names, either backwards or forwards, that you can find in a dictionary it takes only a few seconds for an intruder to throw a whole dictionary at your account.

Change Your Passwords

1. For general electronic services, like email and file services, go to the password changing page on the IT&S web site: http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/IT_S/email/ or directly to the password change page at: http://password.wheatoncollege.edu
2. For WINDOW, after logging into WINDOW, select "Personal Information" and the PIN change option is available. Note that WINDOW requires a 6-character PIN.
3. For Blackboard, after logging into Blackboard, select "Personal Information" and then the password change option.
4. For Banner, after logging into Banner, type GUAPSWD into the Direct Access space.