CERN, AFS and PLUS credentials converge into a single credential pair
Over the past few years the IT Department has been streamlining CERN users’ access to all central computing services. For each user, the long-term goal is to converge on a single CERN account with a unique credential pair (username and password). This strategy will make IT services more coherent and thus easier for users to understand. It will also simplify account maintenance and provide a central point of control where security measures can be applied.
As the next step of this process, on 1st July 2008 your CERN, PLUS and AFS accounts will converge into a single CERN Account. From then on the account names will be unique and universal.
The passwords will become unique and universal after the first password change, which users are encouraged to make at their earliest convenience. Until then the existing passwords will remain valid on each individual service, but afterwards the new credentials will become truly common to all 3 services.
Thus, starting on 1st July 2008, changing the password for PLUS or AFS services must be done exclusively through the web interface:
http://www.cern.ch/cernaccount
Any password problem should be addressed to the Helpdesk: + 41 22 767 88 88.
With best regards,
The IT Department.
by IT Department