How to change my SS2K password

Your SS2K account is used to log in to network resources on the Social Sciences domain. These resources could include:

• Windows computer in your office/lab
• Shared folders or mapped network drives
• SFTP server nexus.socsci.uci.edu
• other servers or services hosted by SSCS

If you use a Windows desktop computer in your office or lab and it is joined to the SS2K domain, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del and click “Change a Password” from the menu.

You can use your web browser to log in to one of our shared folder storage servers and change your password there:

1. Go to https://ironman.ss.uci.edu
   1. Note: you have to log in to the campus VPN first if you are off-campus
2. Login with your SS2K user account
3. Click the profile button in the top-right corner
4. Click the “Personal” menu option
5. Enter your old password followed by a new password, and confirm your new password
   • You can use the password strength meter as a guide, but the only requirement we have is that your new password is at least 10 characters long
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• NOTE: Please do not change any other settings in this menu or elsewhere on the ironman server.

You may log in to the server nexus.socsci.uci.edu using an SSH client and change your password there. This method also requires a VPN connection to the campus network if you are off-campus.

1. Download an SSH client, such as PuTTY
2. Connect to the server name “nexus.socsci.uci.edu”
3. Login with your current username/password
4. If this is your first login, you may be prompted to change your password, otherwise type passwd and press Enter; follow the prompts to change your password.
5. Type exit and press Enter to quit

1. Open the Terminal, in /Applications/Utilities/
2. Type ssh USERNAME@nexus.socsci.uci.edu and press Enter
3. Type your current password when prompted
4. If this is your first login, you may be prompted to change your password, otherwise type passwd and press Enter; follow the prompts to change your password
5. Type exit and press Enter to quit the SSH session

Please email Social Sciences Computing Services at sscs@uci.edu and request that we reset your password. When you send this email, make sure it comes from your official @uci.edu email account so that we can verify your identity.