Are you new to Ferris, or have not set up your alternative email for passphrase resets? Please follow the step-by-step instructions below.
Note: If you have already set up your alternative email address in the passphrase management tool, you may skip to Step 3.
Password Requirements:
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- Minimum password length: 8
- Number of passwords remembered (Password History): 10
- Password must contains characters from three of the following categories:
- Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters): ([email protected]#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/) Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for this policy setting.
- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase
or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.
- Minimum password age: 120 days
- Password lockout setting:
- Number of attempts allowed before account is locked: 5 failed attempts
- Account will be locked out for a period of: 15mins
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- Minimum password length: 8
- Number of passwords remembered (Password History): 10
- Password must contains characters from three of the following categories:
- Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters): ([email protected]#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/) Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for this policy setting.
- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase
or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.
- Minimum password age: Unlimited (Passwords do not expire)
- Password lockout setting:
- Number of attempts allowed before account is locked: 5 failed attempts
- Account will be locked out for a period of: 15mins
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- Minimum password length: 8
- Number of passwords remembered (Password History): 10
- Password must contains characters from three of the following categories:
- Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters): ([email protected]#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/) Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for this policy setting.
- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase
or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.
- Minimum password age: Unlimited (Passwords do not expire)
- Password lockout setting:
- Number of attempts allowed before account is locked: 5 failed attempts
- Account will be locked out for a period of: 15mins
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- Minimum password length: 8
- Number of passwords remembered (Password History): 24
- Password must contains characters from three of the following categories:
- Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters): ([email protected]#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/) Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for this policy setting.
- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase
or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.
- Minimum password age: Unlimited (Passwords do not expire)
- Password lockout setting:
- Number of attempts allowed before account is locked: 5 failed attempts
- Account will be locked out for a period of: 15mins
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- Minimum password length: 8
- Number of passwords remembered (Password History): 24
- Password must contains characters from three of the following categories:
- Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters): ([email protected]#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/) Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for this policy setting.
- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase
or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.
- Minimum password age: Unlimited (Passwords do not expire)
- Password lockout setting:
- Number of attempts allowed before account is locked: 5 failed attempts
- Account will be locked out for a period of: 15mins
Steps to Reset Password:
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You must set up an alternative email address before you will be able to reset your passphrase using the FSU Password Management Tool.
- Click here to go to the Password Management Tool.
- Log in with your current Ferris username and password.
- Click "Next" on the first screen in the Password Management Tool.
- Enter your current Ferris password once more and click "Next".
- Enter a personal email address (not your @ferris.edu address) and click "Next".
When you go to change your password, a security code will be sent to this address to verify your identity.
- Close the tab to come back to this page and go to Step 3.
- Click here to go to the Password Management Tool.
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After you set up an alternative email address, you can now change your current Ferris password.
- Click here to go to the Password Management Tool.
- Enter your Ferris username and click "Next".
- A security code will be sent to the alternative email address you provided. Enter
that code and click "Next".
- Click the "Password Reset" button and enter your new password. Make sure that your
new password complies with our password complexity requirements listed at the top
of this page.
- Click "Next" and your password will be changed.
- Click here to go to the Password Management Tool.
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