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Change Password/Passphrase
Students, Faculty and Staff must have an active WCU Network account in order to use this tool.


Make sure your New Password meets the requirements listed below:
  • Password must be at least 8 characters in length
  • Must be different than your previous 3 passwords
  • Password can not contain any part of your name
  • Must have 3 of the 4 characteristics below:
    • Lowercase character(s)
    • Uppercase character(s)
    • Numeric character(s)
    • Special character(s), such as % $ #
  Consider using passphrases instead of passwords.


What is a Passphrase?

    Passphrases


    One of the easiest to remember and hardest to crack password methods is the pseudo-random password. The actual password is generated from an easy to remember pass-phrase that is important to the user. This phrase can be the words from a book that you particularly like, words from a song that you always remember with ease, a statement that some powerful figure made that you will NEVER forget. This is the key. It is a phrase that is easy for you but no one else will ever think about attributing to you.


    For example:

    • pass phrase: My Wife's Birthday Is april(4) Twenty Fifth Nineteen Sixty six(6)
    • password : mwbi4tfns6
    • pass phrase: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought…"
    • password : foscanse (arrived at by choosing the 1st 2 letters from each word until a total of eight characters resulted).
    • pass phrase: "It was a dark and stormy night".
    • password: iwadasn

    It's easy for you to figure it out but it's a nightmare for a password cracker. The idea in this method is not that the password itself is easy to remember but that the process that you go through to arrive at it is so simple that you find yourself re-creating the same password with the process without even thinking about it.


    When the time comes to change passwords, you have a number of options. You can change your pass phrase and re-process or you can keep the same phrase and change the order of the characters that you choose from it (take every second and fourth letter). It really doesn't matter -- what does matter is that you come up with very strong passwords that you can either remember or re-create on demand with little effort.


Username: (e.g., JD123456@wcupa.edu or BSMITH@wcupa.edu)
Old Password/Passphrase: 
New Password/Passphrase: 
Confirm New Password/Passphrase: 

   
Please be patient, this may take a few moments to process.
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