Use your current passphrase

1. Go to http://accounts.ucdavis.edu
2. Click Change your passphrase
3. Enter your information, and click Submit Information
4. Type your loginID (username), select Kerberos Passphrase, and click Continue
5. Type your Old Kerberos Passphrase, a New passphrase, and Confirm passphrase, then click Continue
6. Review the confirmation, then click End Session

If this method was unsuccessful please choose another option listed above.

Use your challenge questions

1. Go to http://accounts.ucdavis.edu
2. Click Change your passphrase
3. Enter your information, and click Submit Information
4. Type your loginID (username), select Passphrase Challenge Questions, and click Continue
5. Type the answers to your questions, then click Continue
6. Type a New passphrase, and Confirm passphrase, then click Continue
7. Review the confirmation, then click End Session

If this method was unsuccessful please choose another option listed above.

Visit a computer lab

• Five IET computer labs on the Davis campus provide walk-in pasphrase resets
• The passphrase reset service is available weekdays from 8AM to 9PM, except on Fridays when the service ends at 6PM
• Not all computer labs are open during the hours listed above, so please check computer lab hours for availability

The IET computer labs on the Davis campus which provide the passphrase reset service are:

• 182 Peter J.Shields Library
• 177 Memorial Union
• 15 Olson Hall
• Student Community Center
• 75 Hutchison Hall

If this method was unsuccessful please choose another option listed above.

Visit an account proxy or Education Building at UCDMC

• Contact an account proxy within your department (if available) for assistance with changing your passphrase
• UC Davis Medical Center faculty and staff can also visit the Blaisdell Medical Library to change their passphrase

If this method was unsuccessful please choose another option listed above.

Fax a form to IT Express

Please check your specified email address within 24 hours of faxing a completed request form to IT Express

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1. Download the latest version of the fax reset request form here [PDF]
2. Fill out the form fields by typing in values, or printing out the form and filling out by hand
3. Attach a state-issued driver license, state-issued ID, or government-Issued passport
4. Complete the form by signing and dating the signature portion
5. Fax to the number located at the top of the form

If this method was unsuccessful please contact IT Express.