Your Saint Rose User Name gives you access to email, Blackboard, WebFiles, computer lab login, and many other systems. To learn more, click on the appropriate link below.

Password Complexity Requirement

Avoid having your e-mail account compromised and used by unauthorized users. The main reason e-mail accounts get compromised is that people use easy to guess passwords. Unauthorized users then use your account to send out thousands of SPAM e-mail messages. This causes e-mail service providers to blacklist the College and prevent e-mail from being sent from or to College e-mail accounts. As a result, email services are interrupted, sometimes for several hours until the problem can be rectified. This is a very serious matter and it is very difficult to get removed from the blacklists.
In an effort to maintain the security of its e-mail system, the College has decided to implement a password complexity requirement.
All users will have to have a password that includes the following characteristics:

1. It cannot not contain significant portions of the user's account name or full name
2. It must be at least eight characters in length
3. It must contain characters from three of the following four categories:

- Uppercase characters (A through Z)
- Lowercase characters (a through z)
- Numbers (0 through 9)
- Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %)

If your current password does not meet these complexity requirements, please change it as soon as possible.

Windows Users

1. Log onto any College computer.
2. Pres Ctrl + Alt + Delete
3. Select Change Password
4. Enter your current password
5. Enter your new complex password twice.
6. Click OK.