Accounts, Netids, and Password Changes

You must have a valid ACCC account and password to use most ACCC services, including dialin access, the machines in the ACCC public personal computer labs, the campus Res-Net network, and your ACCC email account.

All members of the UIC community - students, faculty, and staff - are eligible for a free personal ACCC account. Need to open yours? Go to http://www.accc.uic.edu/, click the purple Accounts button, then select Accounts - Get an Account. Problems? Contact the CSO; see Getting Help.

Your "ACCC account" consists of two things: your public UIC netid which says who you are (it's even part of your email address), and your private ACCC password, which you use to definitively identify yourself as you.

Students are assigned netids of the form jtesti1 (built from their names, in this hypothetical case, J. Testing, and a one- or two-digit number). If you're a faculty or staff member, you must choose your own netid and have your department's phonebook contact person register it for you. There's more information about UIC netids and a search form that you can use to look up your department's phonebook contact person in Getting a UIC Netid, http://www.accc.uic.edu/accts/netids.html.

Your Password Secures Your Account -- Change It Early; Change It Often

Change your ACCC password as soon as you open your account and on a regular basis thereafter. (That will keep your password from expiring.) Never give your password to anyone else. Changing your password is a lot easier than you might think when you use the ACCC Web-based Password Changing Utility. Learn more by visiting http://www.accc.uic.edu/, clicking the Accounts button, and then selecting Password Changing Utility.

You can even use the Password Changing Utility to change your password when you've forgotten what it was, provided that you've planned ahead. Visit the Password Change Utility Web page to select a personal challenge/response phrase now, before you forget your password.