<p>I admit the passwords I'm used to using are a bit less secure than what UVA demands (at least one lowercase letter, one uppercase letter, a number <em>and</em> a special character), so I had to invent some new password that I thought I could remember.</p>
<p>I guess I couldn't.</p>
<p>Firefox remembers my webmail password for me, but I can't figure out what it is! And when I go to "I forgot my password," it says, "come to the ITC Help Desk, Room 116 of the 2015 Ivy Road building, with student id"???</p>
<p>Seeing as I might need to file certain applications online (housing and dining, right?) this doesn't look good.</p>
<p>EDIT: Is it possible for someone to fix the grammar in the thread title?</p>
<p>I remember reading during the id activation that if you forget your password you'll have to do the id activation process again.</p>
<p>This won't help you now, but think about saving your passwords in Roboform or something similar.</p>
<p>Then use Syncplicity or Sugarsync to save the data files automatically to their servers as you add/change passwords. That way you always have a copy of your passwords available from any computer. Ditto for homework files.</p>
<p>hmm there was a way to find out the password they gave you. Don't remember exactly how, I hunted around ITC. But if you changed it, I don't think it works.</p>
<p>For what it's worth my "view passwords" button was under "security"</p>
<p>The</a> Techsticle
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Most people take advantage of Firefox's abiltiy to store your passswords for the multitude of sites you visit. How many realize that those passwords are easily accessible to anyone with access to your computer?</p>
<p>Simply go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy and click on the VIEW SAVED PASSWORS button. Then choose Show Passwords. Firefox does you the favor of asking if you REALLY want to show the passwords.</p>
<p>Jeez...Thanks.</p>
<p>This is obviously an intentional "feature". I don't understand how a browser that is boasted as being so secure can have something like this built into it. I just recently discovered this after months of using it.
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<p>Okay when I get back home I'll try it ... </p>
<p>Hmm, I wonder if I can turn it off in the future (I thought it would be stored as a hash ...) though it will save me now. </p>
<p>I don't want to activate a new account, because I have placement test scores tied to my current account! It would suck to have to take them again.</p>
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Also this didn't work??
Resetting your Important Passwords
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<p>I did that ... </p>
<p>"
Student Password Reset Procedure: CMS Email/Blue.unix</p>
<p>Students that took the computing quiz and changed their original CMS or blue.unix password can have their passwords reset by:</p>
<pre><code>* coming to the ITC Help Desk, Room 116 of the 2015 Ivy Road building, with their student id"
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<p>That's why I tell everyone to not change their password. Too much of a hassle if you ever forget it. UVA will always and forever know your original CMS password. It's hard in the beginning, but just write it down and stick it in your wallet or cell phone and reference it to type in your password for now, and eventually the repetition will take over and you'll know it. It does suck in the beginning, but it avoids this type of problem.</p>
<p>I'm curious -- why shouldn't the security question recover the actual password, whether it was changed or not?</p>
<p>I mean, I'm told that changing your password regularly is a good habit, so...</p>
<p>(I did recover my password though. And oh, apparently Firefox has a "master password" that guards all the other passwords. Which is still an interesting feature, because I'd prefer it if it was just kept in a hash.)</p>
<p>For passwords like UVA, unless you directly write it down for someone, I doubt anyone will ever remember it. I've logged on to friends computer countless times and can't remember them. I think they make them that hard for a reason: you can eventually remember it with solid repetition (as in, everyday use), it's hard for others to remember, and the combination of the two gives you a password that you can easily use and UVA can keep track of.
Changing your password on less secure stuff is a good idea if you use the same general password for everything and others have access to one of the passwords. But I've had the same password on my AIM login since about middle school when it wasn't cool anymore to use "iluv____" after your crush. Used the same password for stuff like Facebook and such too for a long time. I just never, ever, ever give that password to anyone. If I think anyone will ever want to log on to something, I use a different password (for instance when my computer got taken home to repair, I changed it from the one I use (my UVA password) to a different more "open" one, like a pets name or old school).
I've just seen a lot of issues going around by changing your password, such as wireless issues, logging on to home directory and stuff, etc. My suggestion is to just leave it as it was, if you can. But plenty of people change it and move on fine, so I'm sure you're fine either way.</p>
<p>GALOISIEN--how did you recover your password?? please tell me</p>
<p>im having the same problem. i changed it and wrote it down in a paper and kept it somewhere safe...but now i can't find it!!! gah sooo fristrated right now :(</p>
<p>nvm..i figured it out!</p>
<p>Another Firefox user? ;)</p>