Registration, Passwords, and De-registration
Password Guidance
When you change your University password, it will be checked:
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it is at least 8 characters in length,
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has not been used in your previous 24 passwords,
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must not have been changed in the last day,
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does not contain your username or full name,
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contains at least three of the following four character groups: an uppercase letter (A - Z), a lowercase letter (a - z), a number (0 - 9,), a non-alphanumeric character (e.g.!, $, #, %).
Methods for choosing secure, easy to remember passwords
Choose a line or two from a song or poem, and use the first letter of each word
For example, taking the first two lines from the well known poem, Xanadu, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree:"
could give the password: "IXdKkaspDd:" - Capital I Capital X lower d Capital K lower k lower a lower s lower p Capital D lower d Colon.
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This uses the first letter of each word;
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It retains the ":" (colon) at the end of the second line;
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It changes the repeated letters, so that one is upper case and the other lower case;
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If we then replace the "s" with a "$" (dollar sign), the "a" with an "@" (at sign), and the "I" with a "1" (one), which gives:
"1XdKk@$pDd:" One Capital X lower d Capital K lower k at-sign dollar-sign lower p Capital D lower d Colon.
Some Other Examples, following the same method
| LB@tgB1tw | Led Bib are the greatest band in the world |
| 8JSianG,y | But John Sergeant is a nice guy, yes |
| 1dkA@5aA | I don't know anything about soaps at all |
| DW1@Qwp,D | Dr Who is a quite wonderful program, Davros |
| H0Ew1l,wDH | How on EARTH will I live, without Desperate Housewives |
To change your password now, go to Password Changing.