Quick Tips: Changing/Resetting Your Password

In the new environment, you will use the same password – known as your Bryn Mawr Password - for email, calendar, networked files, networked printing and Virtual Bryn Mawr. Before logging in to any of these systems, you must change your initial password. The password reset tool requires you to set up password reset questions that will enable you to reset your password yourself any time, any place.

Reminder: Since this password gets you into so many applications, it is very important not to share it. You would be risking anything from snooping to identity theft. For this reason, please logout when you leave a public location!

First: set your “identity questions”:

1. Go to password.brynmawr.edu
2. Enter your usual email username.
3. Enter a preset password which has been created for you (call the Help Desk x7440 for this password)
4. Click “Login.”
5. You will be prompted to enter your personal identity questions and answers. Click “yes”.
6. Choose one question from the drop down for which you will have one obvious and unambiguous (to you) answer, e.g. if your favorite movie might change a year from now don’t use that question!
7. Enter the answer. Note that the answer needs to be at least 5 characters; for example, your best friend needs to be “Jill Smith” rather than “Jill”.
8. In the second box, type a question – again one with an answer that will be obvious to you months from now. And then type the answer.
9. Click “Save” on that screen and on the next page near the top click a link that says “Sign Out.”

To set your initial "Bryn Mawr password": (no need to do this until June 9 or later)

10. From the main password.brynmawr.edu login page click “Reset Your Password.” [don’t log in yet]
11. Enter your email username under “domain username” and click “Continue.”
12. You’ll see your two identity questions; answer them and click “Continue.”
13. You will be prompted to enter a new password.
    Your new password needs to be at least 10 characters long and containcharacter sets that make passwords complex (lower case, upper case, number/symbol). Some examplesse these):
    MyNameIs###, ToBeOrNotToBe007, Areallyreallylongphraseisok2.
14. Click “Save.”
    
    Note: If, in the future, you lock yourself out of your account, this interface will also allow you to use these questions to unlock the account without resetting the password.