If you are using Windows to dial in, when the connect box
comes up asking for your userid and password, put the following in
the password field: oldpw/newpw/newpw where oldpw is your current password
and newpw is the new password you wish to
establish. Or, if you wish to change your password via tn3270, point
your software to nermvs.cns.ufl.edu (not
nervm.cns.ufl.edu). This will result in
your reaching the CNS screen. From there choose
SIGNON and press enter. Now you will see the signon
screen where you can change your password.
The password you are
changing is what people used to call the NERVM password. They called
it that because at one time NERVM was our most-used system. When we
issue CNS userids, the owners have access to all of our systems,
whether they use them or not.
The catch (a confusing one) is that
there are two passwords: one for NERSP and one for all other
systems, including dial-up. The latter is the password that you are
changing. Why? Because the NERSP system is UNIX-based and it doesn’t
communicate well with the traditional large IBM systems. We have to
maintain a separate password database for the NERSP system.
Your
NERVM address doesn't really exist anymore. What is in its place is
a forwarding mechanism that takes mail sent to you at NERVM and
forwards to an address that you specified as your address for
receiving mail--if you did that before NERVM went away. If you did
not do this, you are not receiving any mail sent to NERVM. I hope
this answers your questions. If not, please let us know. (tlvh) | 