In a hurry? https://win.webdev.csupomona.edu/idm/user_password_reset.aspx
The BroncoPassword Self-Reset site allows you to reset your BroncoPassword if you have forgotten it. The BroncoPassword is used for BroncoDirect, the Exchange Server, and Blackboard accounts.
To use this feature, you must configure your account with challenge questions to ensure your security.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
If you forget your password, you can always reset it, any time of the day or night, on weekends and holidays.
Disadvantages
- Anyone who knows your user name can try to answer your secret questions, and anyone can look up your username. If your questions are easy to answer (either because the answers are widely known or because you used a lame answer such as "qwerty" or "42" on every question), someone can change your password and steal your account. Think of it as having a deadbolt and alarm system on your front door, but leaving your back door unlocked.
- If you forget the answers to your questions, you'll still have to contact the Help Desk.
How to configure your account
- Go to My Control Panel
- Log in with your BroncoName and BroncoPassword.
- Select the "Account" tab.
- The second item on the page is "Set Password Secrets". Click the button.
- Read the guidelines for the secret questions, below.
- In the first box specify the number of questions you would like to answer. The minimum is three, but you can have up to five, depending on the level of security you want.
- Then choose your questions and your answers. To use one of the example questions, simply pick it out of the drop-down menu and type your answer in the appropriate box. If you would like to write your own question, choose “Other (Enter Below)” in the drop-down menu and type your question in the space below. Then type your answer in the Answer box. Remember: don’t make the questions too obvious. You should be the only one that knows all of the answers.
- After you have finished entering all the questions and their respective answers click “Set Secret Questions”.
- You have now successfully configured your account. You will be able to reset your password if you forget it.
How to reset your password using Self-Reset
- Go to https://win.webdev.csupomona.edu/idm/user_password_reset.aspx
- Enter your username and click “Continue”
- You will be prompted for the answers to the challenge questions you set up previously. Enter the answers in the spaces provided. Then enter the new password you would like and enter it again for verification in the second box. Make sure to follow the password guidelines, if you aren’t sure, click the “guidelines” link. When you are done, click “Change BroncoPassword”
- You have now successfully reset your password.
If you have any problems contact the Help Desk at 909.879.6776. To reset your password manually bring a copy of your Cal Poly ID, or a photo ID and some form of official Cal Poly paperwork, to the Help Desk (Building 1, Room 100).
Guidelines for secret questions
- Avoid questions that people can answer by looking at your Myspace or Facebook profile, or by talking to you for fifteen minutes.
- Avoid questions that have a limited number of possible answers, such as eye color or hair color.
- You can always supply a false answer: if your were born in Fontana, but wish you had been born in London, you can use that as your answer, as long as you remember it.
- Yoo kan mispell yr annsir (r eevn yor kwesschun).
- You can supply a question or answer in a language other than English, and in any writing system (although not all computers will have either the fonts or the input methods for other writing systems). But if you choose a language that you and all your friends use all the time, it's not much more secure than English.
- Just as with your password, never share your questions and answers with anyone you wouldn't trust with your money, reputation, or safety.
This page was last updated on
August 28, 2008
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