How to change your password for the account @mi.fu-berlin.de

Prerequisites

You can change your password from every centrally administered Unix computer and from every windows machine here at the Department. You can even change your password from a trustworthy computer outside our departmental network using a web browser!

In order to change your password department-wide, you only need to change it once in either of the following way.

Please pay close attention to the Hints on good passwords below!

Password change via web interface

On our Portal website, you can log in with your Department account and password. If you klick on the "Password" tab then, you are guided to a form where you can change your password.

SECURITY ADVICE!
Please do only start this password change via browser from a trustworthy, well-administered and patched computer and not from, for example, a PC in an Internet Café! Otherwise you risk your keystrokes being monitored and thus your password getting into wrong hands!

Password change on computers running Linux OS

see "Password change via web interface"

Password change on computers running MS Windows flavours

Please press
<strg> + <alt> + <del>. 
and follow the dialog.

How to choose a good password

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