Accounts & Passwords

In addition to your GatorLink account (see p. 6), if you are a faculty or staff member at UF or another of the institutions or agencies we serve, you may also need to obtain a CNS account in order to perform instructional, research, or information processing tasks or to receive networking or telecommunications services. Consult your supervisor, department chairperson, or dean for guidance on what you need and whom to contact. Or you can call us at (352) 392-2061; just ask for the Accounting Department. CNS accounts are needed for such services as CICS, TSO, NERSP, Network infrastructure or hardware installation, Telephone services and VoIP, Data Storage and Backup, and others as listed in The CNS Charging Algorithm .

Faculty and staff members at UF and other agencies and institutions might also need a special CNS account such as: CNS Departmental Account, College Departmental Research Account, CNS Individual Account, Non-Profit Account, UF Class Account, or Commercial Account. For more details about these accounts, please see www.cns.ufl.edu/ids .

Your CNS password must be a minimum of 5 characters long and a maximum of 8 characters. It may (and should!) contain letters (upper and lower case), numbers and the characters “#”, “$”, or “@” (only).

For details, please refer to the following CNS documents in DOCWEB (see page 5 for information on DOCWEB).

Your CNS password is a vitally important part of the security of UF’s computer systems, network, and data. You have the responsibility to manage your password securely.

Keeping passwords strong is imperative. Hackers, spammers, and others with malicious intent would be happy to use your password to do their work. For more information on changing your account’s password, please see www.cns.ufl.edu/passwords .

GatorLink password changes are done through the http://my.ufl.edu page; instructions can be found at www.bridges.ufl.edu/password . (See page 6.)