Password Management
The following sections will take you through how to change your password and will outline the password policies and requirements.
How To Change Your Password:
(Note that your e-mail password and computer logon password are the same.)
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Change Your Password While Logged Onto A Work Computer
(The computer must be joined to the TAMHSC domain)
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Change Your Password Through Webmail
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Password Requirements:
1. The password must be at least eight characters long.
2. The password must contain characters from 3 of the following 5 catagories:
- English uppercase characters (A - Z)
- English lowercase characters (a - z)
- Base 10 digits (0 - 9)
- Non-alphanumeric (for example: !, #, $, or %)
- Unicode characters
3. The password does not contain 3 or more characters from the user's account name.
4. Can only be changed once in a 24-hour period.
5. Can't use any of the past 3 passwords.
6. The system will force a password change every 180 days.
This may all sound confusing, but it's not as complicated as you might think. For example, let's say you would like to use "basketball" as a password. Well this isn't a strong password, so in order to make it one you could simply just capitalize the first letter and add a number to the end...."Basketball1". This meets the above requirements and is a valid strong password.
