Your UDelNet Account

UDelNet Account Creation
Activating your UDelNet Account
Tips for Creating Passwords Forwarding E-mail
UDelNet ID Error Messages
UDelNet Password Error Messages
Changing UDelNet ID (username)
Changing UDelNet password
Log on to UNIX Systems

UDelNet Account Creation

A UDelNet account is automatically created for each new faculty/staff member or student the day after receiving a University of Delaware ID card. The UDelNet account provides the user with a University of Delaware e-mail address and disk space on UD's central servers for mail and other files. Before it can be used, the user must activate the UDelNet account by assigning it a UDelNet ID (username) and password:

UDelNet ID (username) -
    format: 3-8 lowercase letters - no spaces, numbers or punctuation marks

Your UD e-mail address format will be:   udelnetid@udel.edu.
Students should choose a UDelNet ID carefully, considering its appropriateness when applying for employment or higher degree programs.
UDelNet password -
format: 6 to 8 characters in length; a combination of letters, numbers and punctuation marks. No dictionary words are allowed.

UDelNet passwords are the key to keeping login access to the central computers secure. It is stated University policy that ALL users of the central computers must keep their passwords strictly confidential. After you have set your password, you should find it only in your head. Commit it to memory.

See Access to Computing Resources for more information on terms and length of use.

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Activating your UDelNet Account

Students:

See Before You Arrive - STEP 1 for instructions on activating your account.

If you have trouble, go to the Student Services Building. If you are not on the Newark campus, call 302-831-2132.

Faculty/Staff:

See your HR Liason for your UD ID (employee id) and to set your UD PIN.

Review Responsible Computing - A Manual for Staff

Indicate your understanding of current UD policies as noted in paragraph one.

Tips for creating a strong password

Choose characters from each of the following groups:
- upper case letters (A-Z)
- lower case letters (a-z)
- numbers and symbols (0-9,$,#,!-,_,@...)
Do not use a name or dictionary word in any language. Do not use a repetitive series like "abc123".
Create a password that cannot be guessed from personal information: name, address, SSN, UDelNet ID, phone number, birth date, etc.
Do not re-use a password from another account.
Do not display your password on notes attached to your computer, or store it on your computer's hard drive in obvious places (a "Passwords file").
Change your password often.
Strong password example:  Choose a phrase that is easy to remember and use the guidelines above to make it into a password.
The phrase, "To be or not to be- William Shakespeare" can become:     2B-ntBw$
(Note:  Do NOT use this example as your password!)

Forwarding UD E-mail

Warnings

E-mail filtering by other e-mail providers (MSN, Hotmail, AOL, etc.) is beyond the control of the University and may subject incoming mail to filtering that blocks your forwarded e-mail as spam.
Forwarding your UD mail to an outside e-mail account carries the risk that you will not receive e-mail that is important to your academic success - from professors, the administration and classmates.
To ensure your forwarding is working, periodically send a test e-mail to your UD address and verify that you have received it in your other account.
Remember,
- You are responsible for reading important e-mail sent your official University e-mail account and could miss it - and suffer the consequences - if you forward your e-mail to another account.
- Forwarded mail is NOT secure once it leaves the University's mail server.
- Some faculty members require class mail to be sent from a student's UD mail account.
- Make sure your forwarding address remains valid and that you do not exceed the mailbox storage limits in that account.

Student forwarding of UD e-mail
- Login to the University of Delaware Network (if not currently logged in).
- Choose "Forward your Email".
- Provide the full address of your other account.
- Forwarding takes place immediately. All mail sent to your UD address will, from this point forward, only appear in the other account.
- Any e-mail that was on the UD mail server before forwarding was set will remain there.
- If you would like to forward your e-mail AND keep a copy on UD e-mail, see instructions.
Departmental E-mail for Faculty/Staff
If a department has its own e-mail server, Faculty/Staff should
- Set forwarding of UD mail to their departmental address.
- See E-mail Registration instructions to provide the preferred e-mail address for the UD Online Directory.

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UDelNet ID Error Messages

The UDelNet ID _______ is already in use. Please try choosing a different UDelNet ID.
UDelNet IDs must be unique across the UD network. The username entered is already in use; try another username.
The UDelNet ID you chose (_) is invalid. Pick a UDelNet ID made up of 3 to 8 lowercase letters.

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UDelNet Password Error Messages

The new password you have chosen was rejected because it is based on a dictionary word. Please choose another password.
The new password you have chosen was rejected because it is too short. Please choose another password.
The password cannot be a English or foreign dictionary word or a successive series of numbers or letters, such as abc123.

The new password you have chosen was rejected because it does not contain enough DIFFERENT characters. Please choose another password.

Text you will receive after a successful password change:

Your password has been updated

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Changing your UDelNet ID (username)

The UDelNet ID (username) can be changed by logging in to the University of Delaware network. The user, however, must notify his addressbook of the name change. There is no automatic facility to forward mail from the old name to the new name.

Please refer to the UDelNetID Error Messages above if you have difficulty changing your UDelNet ID.

Note: If the user has taken a MyCourses (WebCT) course, he must contact the WebCT group to coordinate the username change.

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Changing your UDelNet Password

Login to the University of Delaware network with your UD ID and UD PIN. Choose "Change your password". If the system keeps refusing the new password, try logging out and starting again.

If you do not have a PIN, do not know your UD ID or have any other problems, go to the Student Services Building. If you are not on the Newark campus, dial 302-831-2132.

The new password will be effective immediately for those directly connected by ethernet to the UDEL network.
The new password will be effective the following day for:

certain web applications
users who dial in to the University network using a modem
users logging on to MyCourses (WebCT)

Please refer to the UDelNet Password Error Messages above if you have difficulty changing your UDelNet password.

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Log on to UNIX Systems

Secure shell connection software, which encrypts the UDelNet password and other data, should be used to log on to UNIX systems on the UD central computers.

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