Password Policy
Effective Winter 2009.
- Effective January 2nd, 2009, the ITS HelpDesk will be the only department on campus that will process a request to change a password for your computer account, email, Banner/SIS PIN or Ann Arbor Kerberos account. Please consult the Password Change Policy for more information.
- LAN and Banner computer passwords (consult flyer "What are all these Passwords for?") for UM-Flint faculty and staff will expire every 90 days.
- Users will not be allowed to immediately change their new password back to their old password. The systems will keep an encrypted history of passwords thereby decreasing the chance for repetition.
- ITS will enable password filtering to disallow commonly used passwords (consult Prohibited Password List).
- Passwords will require a length of at least 8 characters.
- For special accounts deemed appropriate by ITS personnel, the same requirements would apply except with a 30-day expiration date.
For more information, please consult the Password Security awareness campaign.