Afs password expiration starts Feb 2nd 2004
Due to security reasons, and in agreement with CERN management, afs/lxplus passwords will fall into line with Nice/Mail passwords on February 2nd and expire annually.
As of the above date afs account holders who have not changed their passwords for over a year will have a 60 day grace period to make a change. Following this date their passwords will become invalid.
What does this mean to you?
If you have changed your afs password in the past 10 months the only difference is that 60 days before expiration you will receive a warning message. Similar warnings will also appear nearer the time of expiration.
If you have not changed your password for more than 10 months, then, as of February 2nd you will have 60 days to change it using the command ‘kpasswd'. Help to choose a good password can be found at: http://security.web.cern.ch/security/passwords/
If you have been given a temporary password at any time by the Helpdesk or registration team this will automatically fall into the expiration category and you will need to change it (with the ‘kpasswd' command ).
If you do not change your password in the allotted time (or have simply forgotten it) it will expire and you will need to contact the IT Computing Helpdesk (helpdesk@cern.ch or tel: 78888 ) to have it reset to a new temporary value. As of April 5th these temporary passwords will be valid no more than 5 days.
Maybe you no longer need an afs/lxplus account or even didn't know you had one ! In this case, send a mail to user.registration@cern.ch requesting the deletion of the account.
IT Security / User and Afs Support teams