FAQ 'FAQ: Account, Login, Login names, Password, TUM User Name, MWNID'
How Can I Change My Password?
To change your password take the following steps:
- Log into TUMonline ein.
- Navigate to your personal card (click on your own name in the upper right corner)
- In the "Services" (German "Dienste") area (buttom right) click on the link "Change Password" (German: "Kennwort ändern")
- In the following screen you enter your current password and twice your new password. Please obey the password rules given below.
- Click on the button "Save" (German: "Speichern")
- Your new password will then be propagated to all connected systems an will be valid immediatly or after some short minutes.
A detailled manual, espescially for the cases that you own several accounts can bei found here.
One cannot stress to often, that you should keep your password secret. Under no circumstance whatsoever you are allowed to give your password to somebody else. The IT Service Desk of TUM will never ask for your password. The owner of your loginname an password counld read your mails, access and delete your files, register or deregister you for exams and so on.
So be aware at which systems you enter your password. In doubt, ask IT Service Desk whether a system is a legal system of TUM. Change your password regularly. Chose "secure" - that is long an difficult to guess - passwords.