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How To Change Your Password

Important: When your account is newly activated you are issued a login password. This is meant as a temporary password and should be changed immediately.

Changing your password when logged in The standard way to change the password is through a login terminal. This is done from caclogin01. The command to use is "passwd": $ passwd Changing password for user. (current) LDAP Password: New password: Retype new password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully. $ Please note that the password entry will not appear on the screen, so it may appear that there is no response. Just continue to type in the passwords. If the two entries match a response will be issued. Re-setting a new password when you have forgotten it If you have forgotten your password and can't login to the system, you need to contact us at cac.help@queensu.ca. We will then reset your password and contact you with a request for a phone call so we can issue the password to you. We do not issue passwords through email. Be prepared to answer question to authenticate you.