Questions and Answers

Follow the instructions on this website (section Password Change).

If you have forgotten your personal password, please contact the SCC user service. In this case and for security reasons, please only contact us in person on site at Steubenstraße 6a or by telephone. You can find further information on the page »Forgotten your password?«.

A good password means, above all, a password that is both secure and memorable. On our page on »Password Guidelines« you will find all the requirements to be taken into account when choosing a password, thus ensuring a »good« password.

With the very long validity period of 365 days, the choice of a sufficiently secure password is of great importance, as a compromised password could be misused during the entire validity period. A compromise, e.g. by guessing, is prevented or at least made very difficult by choosing a complex password - in accordance with our specifications. The complexity is necessary because the password length is relatively short with the minimum length of 11 characters.

You can find more information on the page »Sense and purpose of our password rules«.

There are various methods that help to repeatedly generate new, secure passwords that are then also easy to remember. These procedures, such as the »acronym method« or »collage method«, etc., have been explained in detail on the page »Help for generating the password«.

Example:
If you have generated a password using the »acronym method«, you can use the same mnemonic again if you need to change the password, but generate a completely new password by changing the use of the shift key (change of upper and lower case). However, if this procedure is used several times, the next change should not be easy to deduce.

Application:
Mnemonic: Wir wurden 2014 Fussball-Weltmeister.
Password (old): Wiwu"0!$FwM
Password (new): WIWU201$fwm
Password (new again): wIWu2=1$fWM

After a password change, it can happen, especially with Android smartphones, that no connection is established despite entering the new password in the »eduroam« WiFi profile.

• In this case, please restart the smartphone. Now an »eduroam« connection should be possible with the new password.
• If not, delete the saved »eduroam« WiFi profile and create it again with your data according to our instructions. You can find these on the page »WiFi at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar«.

Many programs (e.g. mail clients) offer that you save your password and do not have to enter it again the next time. This storage is only "local", i.e. only within your e-mail program. Consequently, after a change of the central password, the local password of your e-mail program now differs from the central password. For this reason, after changing the central password, you will be asked again by your e-mail program to enter the password. If you save the new password, you will not be asked again until you change the central password.

For the catalogue of the University Library Weimar, the library-specific log-in still applies.
On the other hand, the new, central password applies for logging on to the computers, in the VPN or WiFi.

Further information can be found on the University Library's information page.

You can use a so-called leak checker to determine whether your email address (including, for example, your private email address) is included in a data theft of sensitive data from online services etc. (e.g. of data such as log-in or password):

• Identity Leak Checker of the University of Bonn
• Leak Checker of the Hasso-Plattner-Instituts (HPI)
• Leak Checker »Have I Been Pwned«

After entering the e-mail address, the result will be sent to the corresponding e-mail address or displayed to you.