(Checked on submission) Passwords shorter than 16 characters cannot contain words longer than 3 characters.

Must NOT contain 4 sequential characters of your NetID.

Must contain at least 1 number or special character (cannot use: spaces, double quotes, commas, or signs).

Must contain at least 1 lowercase letter.

Must contain at least 1 uppercase letter.

Must be at least 12 and no more than 127 characters in length.

Passwords must be changed every 365 days and meet the following requirements:

We strongly encourage you to set up your recovery options so that you can easily reset your password if it expires or is forgotten. Strong passwords are required on campus NetIDs. The University of Illinois Interim Security Policy requires the use of strong user passwords wherever possible. Check System Status or planned outages for UI – Integrate systems that could affect access to NetId/Password Maintenance.

The UIS NetID lookup and Password change pages interact with the UI-Integrate system.

NetIDs are required to register for courses. Of all your computing passwords, your NetID password is particularly important because of the type of services it controls access to and the sensitive personal information that can be accessed if your password is compromised.

Many important secure University services will ask for your NetID to find out who you are and your NetID password to verify that you are who you say you are. It may also be referred to as your Active Directory password. Your NetID has a password associated with it, this password is commonly called your NetID password. For example, if your email address were your NetID would be jdoe123. Your NetID is the part of your e-mail address before the symbol. It serves as your login to many University computing and networking services. Your Network ID (NetID) is a network login assigned to you that is unique across all University of Illinois campuses.

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