This document covers how to change your password on one of the email servers if it has expired.

If you want to change your password and it has not expired, please refer to the documentation for changing your password on Odin (Students and some faculty) or for changing your password on Thuban or HMCADMIN (Most faculty and staff).

Information on changing your Charlie or Alice (Windows) password is also available.

Some of the email servers at HMC require you to periodically change your password for security reasons. If you receive an error message telling you that your password has expired for a particular server, do the following:

• Click on the Start-Button at the lower left corner of your screen, and click on the "Run" option to open it.
  
• Enter "cmd" (without the quotation marks) into the "Open" text-box that appears .
  
• From the command-line menu that appears, type whichever of the following pertains to your server (Do not type any quotation-marks):
  • For HMCADMIN, type "telnet hmcadm.admin.hmc.edu"
  • For THUBAN, type "telnet thuban.ac.hmc.edu"
  • This shows a telnet to HMCAdmin:
    
• The computer will prompt you for your username. Enter this and then press enter.
• The computer will prompt you for your old password. All password information is entered "blindly" so that it does not display on the screen, so don't be alarmed when you are typing and it appears that nothing is happening. After carefully typing your password, press enter.
• The screen will now prompt you for a new password. Once again, the password will be entered in "blindly" so that you cannot see it. None of your old passwords for the server will be allowed, so you will need to have a new password ready. (See Password Tips).
• You will be prompted to enter your new password again to verify that you did not make an error when entering it the first time.

Your server password has now been updated!