User Account Administration

Introduction

Users are able to perform some basic adminstration on their user accounts. This guide shows how to change your password and email address.

User Password Change

To change your user password, follow these steps:

1. Login to the UFS HPC using your current user credentials.

2. Type passwd in the terminal to change your password:

   $ passwd
   

3. A prompt asking for the current password will appear:
   
   
   Enter your current password and press Enter. Note: Typing passwords into the terminal does not display the text in the terminal.
   
   

4. Next, a prompt for the new password will appear:
   
   
   Enter the new password and press Enter again.
   
   
5. You will be prompted to re-enter the new password:
   Retype your new password and press Enter again.
   
   
6. If successful, the password change will be confirmed:
   
   

7. Next, follow steps 4 - 6 for changing your VNC password (the passwd change isn't synced to VNC) by using the vncpasswd command:

   $ vncpasswd
   

8. If you experience any difficulty, please contact the UFS HPC staff at hpc@ufs.ac.za

User Email Address Change

Upon account creation, the user's email address is assigned to the primary email address registered with the University at that moment in time (I.e. if you update your email address on PeopleSoft, the change isn't pushed to your UFS HPC account).

Fortunately, changing your account email address registered with the UFS HPC is not an involved process and can be done by the user by following these steps:

1. Login to the UFS HPC using your current user credentials.

2. Execute the following command:

   $ echo "your@emailadress.com" > ~/.forward
   

3. All UFS HPC emails should now be forwarded to the new address.