{"id":9,"date":"2018-08-28T14:01:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/2006\/03\/20\/how-to-change-your-netid-password\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T18:59:49","slug":"how-to-change-your-netid-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/2018\/08\/28\/how-to-change-your-netid-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Your NetID Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your NetID and password are used to access a lot of sensitive information at UVM. To change your password, go to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/account\"><strong>https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/account<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Passwords must be at least 12 characters long, contain at least 2 types of characters (lowercase, uppercase, numbers, or symbols), and not be based on dictionary words. Never share your password!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Password Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"instructions\">A good password is easily remembered but hard to guess:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nonsense words, unusual acronyms, and deliberate misspellings help make good passwords. Do not choose passwords that have a personal reference to yourself, such as your nickname or a family member&#8217;s name.<\/li>\n<li>Pick a sentence you remember from a movie, book, or song. Use the first letter of each word, tossing in some capitalization and punctuation to make it harder for someone else to guess.<\/li>\n<li>You\u00a0<strong>can<\/strong>\u00a0include dictionary words if your password is long enough. Use several words \u2014 or even a whole sentence \u2014 as well as numbers or punctuation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your NetID and password are used to access a lot of sensitive information at UVM. To change your password, go to: https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/account Passwords must be at least 12 characters long, contain at least 2 types of characters (lowercase, uppercase, numbers, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/2018\/08\/28\/how-to-change-your-netid-password\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,146,485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-tips-and-tricks","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/chwb-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}