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CalNet ID Information for EECS
  January 2009

What is a CalNet ID?
  A CalNet ID is an ID number or user name with a password.    It is used to login to some WEB sites at UC Berkeley.
A CalNet ID for staff initially consists of:

Field Also called Example Comment
employee ID "login", "principal", "user name" 012345678 9 digits, starts with "01"
Password "passphrase" The quick brown fox. at least 9 characters; at least 3 character "classes"
( https://calnet.berkeley.edu/passphrase-requirements.html)

How Do I Get One?
 
1.   Employees need a UCB employee ID number.
2.   Obtain a temporary CalNet passphrase (a "token") from a CalNet deputy from your department.
3. Go to https://net-auth.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/krbreg to set a new "passphrase" of your choice.
4. Go to https://net-auth.berkeley.edu/ if you wish to change your Calnet passphrase after that.
5. You may test your new CalNet ID at https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kevinm/calnet/test.
6. To set/reset the new CAS CalNetKey (July 2008): https://calnet-offsite.berkeley.edu/myi/key/set.
7. If a site does not accept your CalNetID, please contact the adminstrators of that site   (not the people listed above)   to report the problem.
 
Why Do I Need One?
 
* To logon to Bearfacts for e-Grades, student records and course lists   [ Bearfacts help]   [ e-Grades help]
* To logon to AirBears,   e-Parking,   Quest,   software,   Cal directory,   other CalNet-enabled applications.
* You can make all your user names the same, so that
CalNet username = EECS username and
username@berkeley.edu username@eecs.berkeley.edu:
1. Change your CalNet user name at https://calnet.berkeley.edu/myi/id/change   [FAQ]   [check]   [Things to consider]
2. Set your password and user name for calmail.berkeley.edu at https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/account/create_account.
Note that @berkeley.edu = @calmail.berkeley.edu and you can forward that to your EECS address.
3. Set your @berkeley.edu email forwarding at https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/account/forwarding/.
Departmental WEB programmers:
to use CalNet IDs as passwords, see https://calnet.berkeley.edu/developers/ and https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/calnet/Shibboleth

  Kevin Mullally, Manager
EECS Instructional Systems Support
378 Cory Hall, Berkeley CA 94720-1770 		VOICE: (510) 643-6141
FAX: (510) 643-7846
EMAIL: kevinm@eecs.berkeley.edu