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Linux / MacOS

To change your password please log in with SecureShell (ssh) to 'login.coli.uni-saarland.de' and enter the command 'yppasswd'.

 ssh login.coli.uni-saarland.de
 passwd

Windows

Press CTRL-Alt-Del and select "Change Password". Windows passwords are independent from Linux / MacOS / Mail passwords.

Your email password is the same as your Linux / MacOS password.

 ssh login.coli.uni-saarland.de
 apg -a0 -MNLC -t -m10 -x10

Passwords generated this way will take on average approximately 64 years to be broken by a 8xTitan-X GPU cluster node.

A password should be

kept secret
changed on a regular basis
not be easy to guess by others (like your Matrikelnummer or 'klausi1' for instance)

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+== Easy way ==
{{{
 ssh login.coli.uni-saarland.de
 apg -a0 -MNLC -t -m10 -x10
}}}

Passwords generated this way will take on average approximately 64 years to be broken by a 8xTitan-X GPU cluster node.

== More information ==
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-To choose a password which is not easy to guess, use a non predictable combination of upper/lower case letters along with numbers and special characters. To help you create a safe password log in via ssh to login.coli.uni-saarland.de (using your old password) and start 'apg'
{{{
 ssh login.coli.uni-saarland.de
 apg -a0 -MNLC -t -m10 -x10
}}}
You may choose any of the suggestions, if you like you can modify them a little.