Effective March 25th, 2020, we have temporarily suspended the mandatory password change for all employees.
The State University System compels institutions to have a mandatory password change for employees of no longer than 1 year. At UWF we’ve pushed for the maximum time between changes (1 year), however during this time of maximum remote work, we realize that a password change could cause login issues especially for employees working remotely using UWF computers.
When we resume our mandated yearly changes, all users who would’ve received a reminder to change their passwords will receive their email warning indicating how many days they have left to change their passwords before we scramble it.
We don’t know yet when we will resume the password changes, but we will announce it. It will likely coincide with the ability for employees to be able to physically bring back their UWF computers to campus.
Technical Details
When the password is changed, the underlying identity systems are updated - Google, ADS, & IDReg LDAP. This means that CAS logins require the new password, GMail logins require the new password, RDP would require the new password to authenticate to the RDP Gateway and to log into the destination (on-campus) Windows computer.
The new password would no longer work on a managed windows computer that is not connected to UWF’s network (generally UWF laptops used at homes and some UWF desktops which received special permission to be used at home). This would prevent logins for these employees and cause unnecessary problems.