Here you can find information for end-users regarding the new procedure for changing passwords on the central DESY computer systems. Now you use the new DESY Registry, the administration tool for user accounts. As from 12th of January 2005 two main functions will be made available for the users (without group administrator tasks):
More functions will be added within the next months and will be made available via the WEB interface.
Changes of the
methods of working
Who is affected? / Present accounts
Short Instruction/ Example
Particularities/Error Messages
The introduction of the new Registry means the following changes:
You use the new DESY Registry to set your password.
If the missing account shall be added, please contact the UCO or your administrator. You will then receive a user account with the corresponding password. Through the following required change of the password you will get an identical password for your accounts.
If you have an AFS account and a Windows account within the
new domain WIN.DESY.DE, you can use the new Registry to change your
password synchronously for both systems.
The Windows password (for the domain
WIN.DESY.DE) can be changed synchronously with the
password for AFS Zeuthen with the new Registry.
New accounts will get access to the
AFS cell of Hamburg, but a resource will not be allocated
automatically.
Retrieve https://registry.desy.de/registry
in your web browser. You have to activate cookies in your web browser
to work with the registry (f.e. Mozilla: Edit - Preferences - Privacy
& Security - Cookies; Internet Explorer: Tools - Internet
Options -
Privacy).
Log in with your password and press
Submit.
The
following screen will appear (maybe at first you have to select "Change
Password (self)" from the menu on the left).
At the moment the other
items in the menu on the left side offer only static information. (The
old Registry was an account database. Many users had multiple accounts
and also multiple personal data for them; e.g. building, room and phone
number have been handled numerously and independently. In the new
Registry one person has multiple
accounts, and the personal data only exist once for one person.
Because of the temporary backwards compatibility and until the account
supervisors have adjusted it, these persons are listed
numerously, every entry with one account through the
migration
from the old Registry to the new one.)
Please insert the new password twice and press the button "Save password", (possibly you have to scroll down), please check the response of the Registry and log out with the corresponding button "logout". Now you have identical passwords, synchronously set for UNIX/AFS and for the new Windows domain. Both will expire at the same time, and it is no longer necessary to set new passwords at different times and in different systems.
Generally the password rules are decisive.
You can receive the following (bilingual) error messages:
Error Message | What to do? |
Missing
old password. Eingabe des alten Passwortes fehlt. |
Please type in the old password, too. |
Missing
new password. Eingabe des neuen Passwortes fehlt. |
Please type in the new password. |
Not
retyped the new password. Wiederholung des neuen Passwortes fehlt. |
The new password has to be typed in twice. |
New and
old password are
identical. Neues und altes Passwort sind identisch. |
If you want to set a new password, you cannot choose one which you have already used before. Please enter a different one. |
New
password retyped
different. Neues Passwort und Wiederholung stimmen nicht ueberein. |
Probably you have made a typing mistake and you have to re-enter the new password in both columns. |
Don't use
your account name
as part of the password. Accountname als Teil des Passwortes ist nicht zulaessig. |
Your accountname can not be a part of your new password. Please enter a different one. |
Password
must use characters
out of at least three different categories (see index). Passwort muss aus min. 3 versch. Kategorien zusammengesetzt sein (siehe index). |
The password must use characters out of at least three different categories. You can find these password rules in the menu of the web interface of the registry under index. Please enter a different one. |
Don't use
a word out of a
dictionary:{1}. Waehlen Sie ein Passwort, das man nicht im Woerterbuch finden kann:{1} |
The password can't be a word out of a dictionary. Please enter a different one. |
Found in
history table of
your last 10 passwords. Passwort in Tabelle Ihrer letzten 10 Passwoerter gefunden. |
You can't use a password, which you have used as one of your last 10 passwords. Please enter a different one. |
Old
password incorrect. Altes Passwort nicht richtig. |
You haven't typed in your old password correctly. Please try again. |
Don't use
firstname as part of the password. Vorname als Teil des Passwortes ist nicht zulaessig. |
You have used your firstname as part of the password. Please enter a different one. |
Don't use
lastname as part of the password. Nachname als Teil des Passwortes ist nicht zulaessig. |
You have used your lastname as part of the password. Please enter a different one. |
Password
size 7 to 14 characters required Passwortlaenge 7 bis 14 Zeichen erforderlich |
Your password is too short (less than 7) or too long (more than 14 characters). Please enter a different one. |
Illegal
character in password Unzulaessiges Zeichen im Passwort |
Your password contains an illegal character. Please enter a different one. |
Illegal
use of Desy names Unzulaessige Verwendung von Desy Namen |
The password contains DESY names (desy, petra, hera ...). Please enter a different one. |
New and
old password are too similar. Neues und altes Passwort sind zu aehnlich. |
The new password and the old password are too similar. Please enter a different one. |
Unexpected
Error. Please
contact UCO. Unvorhergesehener Fehler. Bitte informieren Sie UCO. |
There was an unexpected error. Please inform the UCO. |
Password
for Oracle Platform is not allowed to be equal to kerberos. Passwort für Plattform Oracle darf nicht dem Kerberos-Passwort gleichen. |
It is not allowed to choose the same password for the Oracle platform as for the kerberos platform. |
If you have questions about the Registry or about your user
account,
please contact
uco@desy.de
phone : intern -5005