Passwords

Your account is registered in a NIS ( Network Information System ) environment. You can change your password using the command passwd (a link to /usr/bin/yppasswd). The procedure to change the NIS password is the following:

You will be prompted for your Old NIS password. Then you will be prompted to enter and re-enter your new password. The re-entered password must match the first entry.

There is not password ageing on this system but users are recomendend to use non-trivial passwords. A password must meet four criteria to be valid:

• It must contain at least six characters.
• At least two characters must be alphabetic.
• At least one character must be a number (0-9) or a special character ( /,?,! or other punctuation mark.)
• It must differ from your previous password by at least three characters.

If you forget your password, please contact your system administrator for a new one.