AFS and Kerberos

Account Information

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Password Policy

  • Minimum password length: 8 to 20 characters (recommended, though it can be longer)

  • Cannot contain significant portions of your account name or full name

  • Must contain characters from three of the following four categories:
    1. English uppercase characters (A through Z)
    2. English lower case characters (a through z)
    3. Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
    4. Non-alphabetic characters (for example, !, $, #, %)
  • Minimum password age = 1 day

  • Maximum pasword age = 365 days

  • Enforce password history: 24 passwords remembered

  • IAIT recommends the use of a passphrase instead of a password

    • Network Account

    Your network password (aka your Kerberos password or Rose-Hulman password) is used to access all services on campus except Banner-INB. These include AFS, DFS, the computers in the Logan Library Public Computing Facility and Olin Tablet classrooms, Email, Banner Web, the Windows Domain and the SSL VPN. Your network password can also be used in personal webpages to authenticate users and in various other services.

    You can manage your Rose-Hulman network account password by using the password service located at https://password.rose-hulman.edu/ or follow the procedure outlined in Account Passwords.

    Account Expiration Dates

    Undergraduate students entering Rose-Hulman will receive a network account which will be valid through August 31 of the year they are anticipated to graduate. The information below shows the expiration date of network accounts:

      The account for Seniors who graduate early will remain active until the next account expiration date
      Students who withdraw from the institute will normally have their accounts disabled 1 week following their withdrawal. The account and all its contents, including email, will be permanently deleted 1 week later, i.e. 2 weeks following the withdrawal date
      Students who leave Rose-Hulman for other reasons will have their accounts dealt with on a case by case basis
      Students who attend Rose-Hulman for more than 4 years will have their accounts extended accordingly
      Extending student accounts beyond the scheduled termination period, after graduation, only occurs for certain mitigating circumstances, normally related to job searching activities or employment at Rose-Hulman during the summer. However, this extension will not be longer than the beginning of the next school quarter
      The expiration date for faculty and staff who leave Rose-Hulman is determined by the Human Resources Department
      Retiring faculty and staff may request through Human Resources that they retain an email account on the retiree server

    Laptop Accounts

    Local Manager or Administrator, Password

    The local manager account, .\localmgr, as set up on institute laptops, has administrator privileges. This allows the Local Manager account complete access to everything on the system, including the right to install programs. It is recommended that this account only be used to install programs.


    User Account

    The laptop user account is setup as normal user account. Most programs cannot be installed under this account but the account does have access to most settings and applications on the computer. This is the account recommended for daily use.

    Other Accounts

    Parallel Cluster (Brain)

    Information about how to apply for an account on the Parallel Computing Cluster (Brain) can be found here http://www.rose-hulman.edu/class/parallel/HTML/accounts.html

    Frequently Asked Questions