To change your password:
- Point your web browser to: http://start.nyu.edu. You can also click on the Change link from within your NYUHome Preferences screen to get there.
- Login in with your NetID and current password.
- After you have logged in successfully, click on the first link for "change your password".
- Follow the prompts to change your password.
Changing your password in this way resets your NYUHome password and your NetID password. The NetID and NetID password combination is used with many services throughout the University to verify your NYU affiliation. This password change affects your NYUHome access, NYURoam wireless access, DIAL (if you're connecting from home using a modem), i4 and i5, Blackboard (if you're enrolled in a class that is using this service), as well as logins to other NYU websites that require NetID authentication.
We recommend that everyone should change their passwords at least once every three months. You are required to change your password at least once every 12 months. You may change your password more frequently if you wish, but please do not attempt to change your password more than once within any two-hour period.
When creating your password, please take into account the following password guidelines:
- passwords must be 8 or more characters in length
- include both letters (A-Z) AND numbers (0-9) OR special characters: !@#$%^&*()_-+=[]|\;"~',<>./?
- the alphabetic portion of a password, taken as a whole, may not be a dictionary word proper name, or person's initials
Examples of good passwords:
- You can use a phrase to generate a password:
- Take the phrase "I Love To Eat Hamburgers Every Day".
- Use the first letters: iltehed
- Apply capitalization and substitute punctuation/numbers for letters: Il2e!Ed
- You can also use a common word as a seed for a password:
- By itself, hot dog makes a poor password, but if you apply some of the tricks above (capitalization, punctuation, and misspellings) the result is much better: H0t!daWg.
- You can also use a word but substitute numbers for some of the letters. For example, by replacing the vowels with the number 7 in the word "Spiderman," the password could be "Sp7d7rm7n".
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