AFS Password Information

Your AFS password is used to access AFS disk allocation, various applications, and any Unix systems (Solaris, Linux, and others) at NJIT.

Password Expiration

Password expiration is in effect for AFS accounts. Password change will be enforced by expiring the password after 120 days. In the AFS Kerberos implementation used at NJIT, days before password expiration are measured from the date of the last password change. At the point when a user's AFS password expires, that user no longer has access to his/her AFS account. However, the user still has 30 days after the date of password expiration in which to change the password (i.e., a 30-day grace period), and regain access to the account.

Notifications of AFS Password Expiration

Check your AFS Password Expiration Date

Password Reset

This process assumes that you have an AFS account. All NJIT faculty, staff, and students are issued an AFS account when the UCID and Windows domain accounts are issued. Alumni usually do not have AFS access. There are several ways to recover your AFS password, shown below in order of easy to complicated:

Option	Action	What it does
1	Make AFS password same as UCID password	The UCID password grants you access to Campus Pipeline, student services, employee services, student email, and many other services. If you know your UCID password, you can use this to make your AFS password the same.
2	Make other passwords the same as current UCID password	This changes all of your system passwords (AFS and Windows Domain) the same as your UCID/Pipeline without picking a new password for UCID/Pipeline
3	Make all passwords the same with new UCID password	This changes all of your passwords (AFS, Windows Domain, and UCID/Pipeline) to the same value, so you don't need to remeber multiple passwords for different accounts.
4	Make all passwords the same without UCID password	Same as above (changes AFS, Windows Domain, and UCID/Pipeline), even if you forgot your UCID password.

Please contact the NJIT HelpDesk or email help@afs.njit.edu if none of these choices work or further explanation is required.

Unlock or unblock my account

If you are sure your password is correct and can't login in, or if you changed in within the past 15 minutes and still can't log in, then your account might be locked.

AFS passwords are locked out for 30 minutes if there are too many repeated login failures. You can check if your account is locked here.

AFS account passwords are unlocked when you change your password, but it is possible that it would promptly become locked if something constantly uses the old password, such as an email client (Thunderbird or Exchange).

Quota

If the system seems to accept your login, but then promptly kicks you out, then you might be over quota if you are using a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI is the default login for systems located in the Open Source Lab (2200 GITC), the Sunlab (2305C GITC), and the InfoCommons (library). A GUI needs disk space to setup your session when you login, and exits with errors if disk space is lacking.

You can get around this by logging in without a GUI, as follows:

In the Open Source Lab, click "Session" on the login screen, then "Failsafe Terminal".
In the Sunlab or InfoCommons, click "Options" on the login screen, then "Command Line Login".

The system will always show your disk quota when you login. To logout you must type in "exit".

You can check you AFS quota here.

Reset other passwords

Use this website to reset all your passwords. If you can't remember your UCID password, try the Unattended Password Reset website before you call the HelpDesk.

Help and Support

For more information about AFS, visit http://ist.njit.edu/accounts/afs.php.

Any questions or issues can be directed to the IST Computing Helpdesk.