How To Change Your Password

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How To Change Your Password

Duck ID passwords expire automatically every 180 days. Our system will e-mail you a reminder notice seven business days before your password expires.

Changing your password may require more work than selecting a new password. Some programs store your e-mail password for your convenience. When you change your password, you need to update any program that has your old password stored. E-mail programs, such as Outlook, Thunderbird, and Mac Mail, will store your password at your request.

Password Choice Requirements
A valid password is:

between 8 to 32 characters in length
not one of your last three passwords
not your email address or name
not a word in the English or Spanish dictionaries
not a common keyboard sequence (such as asdfghj or qwertyui)

Suggestions for selecting a valid password:

Choose a word, then scramble it with some random numbers (e.g., buffalo becomes Bu3fa2o).
Convert an easy-to-remember phrase into an acronym. "It is a very fine day" could be abbreviated to "iiavfd", and then by adding two nonalphabetic characters, would become a valid password of iia44fd.

Change Your Password
To change your password, visit duckid.uoregon.edu.

Forgot Your Password?
Visit duckid.uoregon.edu and click the "Forgot your password?" button. The web site will ask for you to answer the security questions you set up and then let you pick a new password.

If you cannot answer your security questions, see What if I can't reset my password?

Problems Using duckid.uoregon.edu?
The web page will give you an error message if something fails. If you do not understand the error message, please call us for help at (541) 346-HELP.

If You Need More Help
If you have additional questions or problems, please call or visit our Help Desk. We will help you resolve the problem to the best of our ability.



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