AFS Password Expiration Notification

University Computing Systems

AFS Password Expiration Notification

The password expiration information in Table 1 applies only to AFS accounts; it does NOT apply to :

NJITDM or ALPHA accounts
ACADEMIC or NJSOA domains

Notifications of impending expiration of a user's AFS password, or a recently expired AFS password, are mailed to <ucid>@njit.edu; these notifications are from AFS-pw-mgr@oak.njit.edu
Password expiration dates are re-calculated daily.

Tables

Table 1 : Case numbers correlate to those in AFS password expiration notices sent to <ucid>@njit.edu
Table 2 : Methods for changing AFS passwords for all Cases

Table 1
Case	Password expires(/d)	Action
I	More than 15 days from present	None
II	Between 5 and 15 days from present	mail sent to <ucid>@njit.edu, once
III	Between 1 and 5 days from present	mail sent to <ucid>@njit.edu, once
IV	Between 0 and 1 day from present	mail sent to <ucid>@njit.edu, once
V	Between present and 30 days ago	mail sent to <ucid>@njit.edu, once
VI	More than 30 days ago	None

(Note: "present" refers to the time at which the expiration date of the AFS password is calculated)

Table 2
Case	To change AFS password
	Do this	... or this	... or this
I-IV	kpasswd	UPR	UPR - All
V	AFS password reset	UPR	UPR - All
VI	Helpdesk: 973.596.2900 or HD	-	-

You can check to see when your AFS password will expire.

NOTE - lockout !! : If you are running client applications - e.g., email, ftp, etc. - that use your AFS password, you must change the password that those clients use to your current AFS password ! Why

Remember : If you change your password on date "D1", that password will expire on D2 = D1 + 120 days. This means you should change your password again before D2.

Please direct questions regarding the above to the Computing Helpdesk: 973.596.2900, or Helpdesk.