Having received 2 emails in the past 2 days telling me I needed to change my MyID password, I decided to change it tonight. In case you are an over-achiever and already changed your password, here is the email:
Dear ———-,
The password for your MyID “————” will expire in 3 days.
To ensure that you can continue to log into UGA services that require a
MyID for access, you must go to http://myid.uga.edu and click “Change Your
Password” to change your current password.Please do not respond to this email as it is an automated reminder only.
If you experience problems please call the EITS Helpdesk at 706.542.3106
Sincerely,
Enterprise Information Technology Services
[note, one email said "will expire in 5 days," while this one said "will expire in 3 days."]
I went to the website to go ahead and get this over with. I thought this would just take a second (I only added a “special character” to the end of my already secure password). Wrong.
You have to invent 2 ’security’ questions and answer them, and then answer 3 stock ’security’ questions. Might I add that one of the ’suggested’ security questions was “What is your favorite day of the week?” Also, EITS, if you read this, the answers to the 5 security questions should not need to be case sensitive- there are 5 questions.
And a question for anyone out there reading this, could your two invented security questions be answered by looking at your Facebook profile? Mine could (at first), and I bet some people’s will, so why have these 2 questions at all?
After coming up with my security questions and answering the other 3 (it took me a while to remember my first teacher’s name), I then had to create my “secure” password. I accidentally messed up the script on the password approval page for a minute because I was testing out how “secure” the password really had to be.
Then I was greeted with this message:
Your password is being updated. This process may take several minutes, please be patient.
And then this warning…
Your password has been updated. It will take up to 15 minutes for this to take effect.
Ha! What nonsense. And all this so later some spyware can steal my Social Security number.
Public service announcement from Hatin’ SGA: change your MyID password by February 1 here.
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