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Students: lost your SOLISid account password?
Your cs.uu.nl account
Your Unix password
Your Windows password
If you forget your unix or windows password
Termination of your cs.uu.nl account
Termination of your account, staff members
Termination of your account, students
Fullname changes
Solis-ID
Changing your Solis password
If you forget your solis-ID or password
Related pages
The department of computer science gives its staff members an account.

An account gives access to network facilities, e-mail, shared files, personal files.

The university gives staff and students an account named 'SolisID' which is used for access to central university services.

Students: lost your SOLISid account password?

Lost solis-id or solis-password

Your cs.uu.nl account

You can read the account policy on the web: Gebruiksvoorwaarden account (Nederlandstalig) or Account policies (English)

Your account has two passwords (one for Unix services and one for Windows services), they are set to the same initial (random generated) password when your account is generated.

Your Unix password

The unix password is also known as 'ldap' password because we use ldap as storage for unix account data.

The following systems use your unix password: all linux workstations, the bscw server, fetching e-mail via imap, access to your personal data in the staff pages.

You can change your unix password with the passwd command on a unix prompt of a machine using ldap (for example shell.cs.uu.nl). The command will ask for your old password and twice for your new password. The command verifies whether the password is strong enough according to certain rules (long enough, enough letters and other characters).

Your Windows password

The following systems use your windows password: all windows workstations.

You can change your windows password by pressing ctrl-alt-del in your logged-in windows session and selecting Change password

If you forget your unix or windows password

No current policy.

Termination of your cs.uu.nl account

Termination of your account, staff members

When you leave the department, as an employee or a guest, we want to close your account as soon as possible, Of course we allow for a grace period, depending on your particular circumstances.

A month before you actually leave the department, please send an email to helpdesk@cs.uu.nl, stating

Termination of your account, students

Student accounts are removed if/when a student either We don't forward mail after the account is removed, but students can sent vacation messages, directing email senders to a new address while the account exists.

Your files are archived and saved for 2 years after which they are wiped from our systems.

Fullname changes

Should you require a change of the fullname linked to your account, get in touch with the helpdesk.

Solis-ID

Every student and employee at Utrecht University has a Solis-ID and password. For employees, the solis_id is something generated, related to their last name. For students, the solis-id is linked to their studentnumber.

Central systems can be accessed using solis_is/passwd, most notably Solis-mail (another e-mail system) and Osiris (student information) for students.

In some places you have to use the long version of your solis_id :

solis_id@soliscom.uu.nl

Informatie over de solis-ugids (in Dutch)
Informatie over solis-id en wachtwoord (in Dutch)
Informatie over solis-mail (in Dutch)

You can view the connected person directory via Solis-Ugids.

Changing your Solis password

Visit the website Solis-Ugids and select eigen gegevens (own data) which allows you to login first using your old password and then start the changing procedure using Wachtwoord wijzigen (change password).

If you forget your solis-ID or password

Go to the science servicedesk on the 5th floor with your Collegekaart or other photo ID. They can reset your password.

Related pages

BSCW shared workspace server
Backups
E-mail
Filesystem snapshots
Filesystems
General servers
Limiting access to webspace
Practicum computers (nederlands)
Remote access to our systems
SSH access
SSH access from Unix systems
SSL certificates
Security
Staff account migration ; mail-client configuration and moving mail
Staff account migration to soliscom accounts
Staff desktop systems
Students account migration to soliscom accounts
VPN access
VPN access from Linux
VPN access from MacOSX
VPN access from Windows
Webspace
Wireless network access

Page source last updated: Fri Sep 2 15:01:48 2011
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