Change Password

Important:

Please do only change your password whilst being at ETH.

If you change the password e.g. from at home you might get Problems with your login on managed clients.

The following instructions refer to changing the ETH passwords.

In general, the password strength is most important when changing passwords. More can be found here: Safe Passwords.

nethz-Passwords

The IAM tool should be used to change the passwords of your services. We recommend using different passwords for each service, but at least for the services nethz and VPN.

Password change

Please login on https://www.password.ethz.ch with your ETHZ-Username and your current nethz password.
If the login was successful, change language in the top right corner of the website if needed. Then please choose the bar “Self-Service” -> “change password”.
Please read the instructions carefully before you change your password.

To change the other password (VPN/WiFi) just tick the box which is marked with an arrow.

If you set your password, click Save on the bottom of the page.

Procedure for password change:

log in to https://www.password.ethz.ch
Please login with your ETHZ-Username and your current nethz password.
If the login was successful, change language in the top right corner of the website if needed.
Then please choose the bar “Self-Service” -> “change password”.
- Please read the page carefully before you change your password.
- Read the instructions before you set your new password.
To change the other password (VPN/WiFi) just tick the box which is marked with an arrow.
If you set your password, click on Save on the bottom of the page.
If changed successfully, you will be taken to the “Overview”.

IMPORTANT: The passwords need to be different from each other!

Important:

Read the paragraph relevant for your operating system which provides additional information in order to avoid severe problems

Windows

Check out the Credential Manager

Mac

Have a look at the KeyChain

Linux

No special action is required under Linux. Please make sure to change the passwords which are stored locally in applications when changing the ETH password.

Mobile phone systems mostly offer a central user account management. Passwords can be changed there. If the password are not stored there, they have to be changed in the applications using the password (e.g. E-mail program)

Although strongly discouraged, many people still save passwords in the browser. If you have done so, you can find the most common places for stored passwords for several browsers.

Google Chrome

Variant 1 (in Google Chrome)

Type chrome://settings/passwords in the URL field
Click on advanced settings
Click on password administration
Change the password in question

Variant 2 (independent of browswer):

Log in to external page https://passwords.google.com
Change your password.

Mozilla Firefox:

Enter about:preferences#security in the URL field
Click on „saved passwords“
Change your password

Opera:

Enter opera://settings/passwords in the URL field
Change your password

Safari:

Safari for Mac saves the passwords in the KeyChain. Please see section Change Password in OS X for more details.