Passwords

CS Members

Definition

A UWinID and password is required to use the resources within the School. The UWinID must be "attached" to Computer Science, meaning that you must be taking a computer science course or a course hosted on our servers, be a computer science major, or a faculty or staff member employed in Computer Science. All active students and staff should have their own UWinID username and password, which is generated and maintained by the University of Windsor Information Technology Services department (ITS). People with an active UWinID and password, and with an attachment to the school of computer science resources, either through employee group, study major, or course enrollment are automatically granted access to the linked systems listed below. Specialized members of the general public, namely alumni, prospective students, event participants, school teachers, and employers may also be granted access to some resources. 

UWinID and Passwords

Managing your campus password

You can manage your campus password by visiting UWin Account.

Your UWinID DOES NOT include @uwindsor.ca. The identifier userid@uwindsor.ca, which is composed of the UWinID userid and the domain name uwindsor.ca, is your Microsoft account in the campus' Azure Active Directory tenant.

Your UWinID is to be used entirely in lowercase characters!

Password synchronization with Computer Science 

When you change your UWinID password through UWin Account, it will synchronize automatically for CS servers that use LDAP authentication at regular intervals (every 15 minutes), with the exception of the following:

• CS Active Directory accounts
• DirectAdmin accounts
• Oracle Database Server accounts

To synchronize your passwords for the services listed above with your campus password, please use the CS Password Utility.

CS Password Utility

Managing your Computer Science Password

The CS Password Utiliity is an on-line self-service application designed to allow CS Members to reset their passwords and user accounts on systems and services within the School of Computer Science.

You MUST use this utility after enabling your campus UWinID, and each and every time you change your campus password.

You SHOULD use this utility whenever you experience trouble authenticating on CS resources.

There are some characters you must not use in your campus password! In particular, you MUST NOT USE a FORWARD SLASH (/), BACKSLASH (\), SPACE, or DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK (") in your campus password. If you have ANY of these characters in your campus password, you MUST change your campus password immediately in order to use our systems!

Additional non-password related functions

This utility will also automatically resolve the following issues, if applicable:

• Remove your IP from the myweb.cs.uwindsor.ca server blacklist
• Unlock your Oracle account in the CS01 instance, if possible.

Session results

Linked Systems

• Computer Science Linux Desktop Servers
• Web Hosting services on myweb.cs.uwindsor.ca (websites, MySQL and @cs.uwindsor.ca email)
• cswifi Wireless Network(EAP authentication required, and checked against the CS Active Directory domain)
• CS Computer Lab Clients
• Cloud Storage (owncloud.cs.uwindsor.ca)
• Oracle Database (CS01 instance)now