For security reasons the Department of Mathematics does not allow users from outside the purdue.edu domain to log into our change password web page.

If you are away from the purdue.edu domain and need to change your password you can us the SSH method as describe below. This only works if you know your math password and want to change it. If you have forgotten your password or it has been reset then this method will not work.

  1. SSH into bers.math.purdue.edu.

    • Mac OS and Linux have SSH clients in the OS. See man ssh

    • For MS Window OS you can download a simple SSH program called PuTTY which can be downloaded from http://www.putty.org. PuTTY does not require any installation, just double click on the downloaded .exe file to run.

      • Set Connection Type is set to SSH.
      • Enter bers.math.purdue.edu in Host Name field.
      • Click on Open button.
      • At this point a window will pop up connecting you to UNIX computer bers.math.purdue.edu. If a PuTTY Security Alert window pops up then click Yes.

  2. Login with your math username and password.

  3. At UNIX command prompt enter the command passwd.

  4. You will be prompted to enter your current password and then prompted to enter your new password twice.

    • Your new password should be at least 8 characters and contain the following:

      • at least 1 upper case character.
      • at least 1 special character.
      • at least 1 number.

  5. The program will let you know if the new password was accepted. You can always CTRL-C out of the passwd program and execute again if you get into problems.

  6. Once you have change your password you can type the command logout to exit the session.