Accounts & Passwords
Manage Your Passwords
OIT is working to reduce the number of campus logins. In the meantime, these tips may help you manage passwords.
Manage passwords with software. Although not supported by the IT Help Desk, there are software tools to act as password vaults. These tools keep all passwords in one encrypted file locked by one master password on your computer. Examples include Key Pass or Password Safe
Create hints. Make a list of password hints to help you remember passwords and which systems they are associated with. The hints should be descriptive enough to help you, but secret enough not to help others.
Protect passwords. While we do not recommend writing down passwords, if you choose to do this protect them as you would your bank account numbers. Do not leave them where they can be found by others.
Use difficult passwords. Use passwords that make sense to you but cannot be found in a dictionary or be guessed by substituting numbers and symbols for letters. For example 'h@rdp@55w0rd' uses the '@' symbol instead of the letter 'a' and the numbers '5' and '0' instead of the letters 's' and 'o'
Grants access to discount software available for Information System and Computer Science students.
For UNLV employees, grants access to computer workstations, web-based applications, and shared network resources.
Account grants access to UNLV financial system for employees.
Grants access to computer labs, file storage, website publishing and more.
These accounts have been replaced with SurveyTool.
Full-time faculty may set up a website for academic purposes.
Grants access to an easy-to-read presentation of UNLV's Advantage financial system.
Provides e-mail, calendaring, and collaboration tools for faculty and staff.
Allows access to secure network file storage
For employess who use Lotus Notes, grants access to spam management system.
Uses Lotus Notes Web authentication for employees who want to send news to UNLV students.
State sponsored e-mail system open to all UNLV students, faculty, and staff.
Grants access to a web-based communication device enabling faculty and staff to compile e-newsletters for target groups of students in their college/department.
Provides access to the database housing student data to employees who pass the security clearance process.
Allows all currently enrolled UNLV students to login to a software store that offers discounts on software packages.
For faculty, staff and graduate students, grants access to an online survey system.
UNLV Dial-up is a free internet dial-up account for UNLV graduate, law or dental students. This service is being discontinued by the state of Nevada on December 31st, 2009. We suggest you arrange home internet services through a commercial vendor.
A free dial-up based Internet account for UNLV employees or currently enrolled UNLV graduate, law or dental students.
Allows you to connect to UNLV's network without the use of a cable.
Secure remote access to campus computing resources.
Web Grading is a program faculty use to record end of semester grades, retrieve student e-mail addresses, and class rosters.
WebCampus is the UNLV supported course management system which allows faculty to post course notes, grades, discussions, and more in a secure environment for students to access via the web.
