There are several different sets of password credentials that Purdue users may have, but the career account password is by far the most frequently referenced.
Some other types of passwords are:
- Onboarding Password or the I-9 Password for the HR system
- Slate Admissions Portal password with the Office of Admissions
- myPurdueProxy credentials for parents with the Office of the Registrar
- Boilerkey Credentials, technically a 'passphrase' but it's used by everyone
- 'secure' admin credentials
- LADMIN password credentials used by CSDS
- DADMIN password credentials used by CSDS
- OUADMIN password credentials used by multiple departments
- AzureAD password credentials used by multiple departments
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Career Account Password RequirementsThere are multiple ways and tools that can be used to set a Career Account Password for a user, however, regardless of how the password is set, some systems won't accept certain values for the password. NOTE: O365 will NOT accept a password that is OVER 16 characters in length, it will also not allow some special characters in certain spots of the password. NOTE: PAL 3.0 sometimes enforces a 90 day password restriction, and will not allow some special characters. NOTE: The Grad School Database & Plan of Study Generator both will now allow passwords older than 90 days to be used, a new one will need to be set. NOTE: There are more restrictions, I don't remember them all right now. When assisting a user in setting a password, we want to make SURE that it is a password that will work across all systems. The last thing we want is for a user to call right back, upset because the password they set with us didn't work. To ensure the password that your user is setting works across ALL Purdue systems without issue, it must:
ADDENDUM: For both PAL 3.0 and O365, punctuation characters may be acceptable in passwords, but it's likely that other 'special' characters will cause problems in these systems. At a later point, they can choose to use a more exotic password, but when working with us, they should use a password with universal acceptance across all systems |
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Setting a new Career Account PasswordThere are multiple tools available to the CSC that can be used to set a new password for a user, each has pros & cons. Match your choice of tool to the task at hand, consider things like time, functionality, permissions, complexity, and difficulty for the user.
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