Changing Your Mailserv Password (Tigger or Icarus too)

The good news is you don't have to login to change your mailserv password; you can do it from the Web. In fact, you can't login to mailserv at all, so you have to do it from the Web.

To get to the ACCC's Web password utility from the ACCC home page, select Accounts -> How to Change Your Password.

If you use WebMail (see WebMail Revisited), you can use the link on the WebMail login page.

On the password utility page, click Change Your Password. (It's at the top.) Assuming that you remember what your password is, click the Use Existing Password to rest a password button.

(You don't remember your password? Don't tell me that you have Eudora remember your password for you! That's very insecure; change it at once! Tools -> Options -> Checking Mail, uncheck Save password.)

Login to Bluestem with the UIC WWW Identification Service: Type your netid and then your mailserv (or tigger or icarus) password in the fields provided and click Enter.

Click in the box by the name of the machine(s) you want to change your password on, type your new password twice, once in each box, and click Change Password.

Like all ACCC passwords, mailserv.uic.edu passwords are 8 characters long and contain at least 4 letters and at least 2 digits or punctuation, but no spaces. (As they say on TV, wider is better. Short passwords are easier to hack.)