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I have forgotten my UCInetID password. What can I do now?
Access the UCInetID Web form at: http://activate.uci.edu/ .
Click on “I forgot my password.”
You will be asked to prove your identity with your UCInetID, your date of birth, and the last four digits of your social security number.
Once you have correctly entered that information, you will [...]
NACS has recently upgraded its password infrastructure to allow for longer passwords. Longer passwords are more secure because it becomes prohibitively difficult to discover a password by computationally grinding through all the possibilities. The “rules” for choosing a good password still stand: use a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and punctuation; don’t use [...]
An increasing number of network resources are accessible using your UCInetID and password. This is a convenience analogous to a master key, but as with such a key, you want to be very careful to protect it.
You should plan to change your UCInetID password with some regularity, perhaps once a quarter. NACS’s tools for managing [...]