Changing Your Password and Maintaining Security

Whenever you sign in to FIS Banner, you must type your userid and your corresponding password. Your password serves as a security check to protect your FIS Banner account from unauthorized users.

Important: You are responsible for all transactions that occur under your userid.

NEVER SHARE YOUR PASSWORD. Make sure nobody else knows your password, and use a password that cannot be “guessed” by a password-breaking program. Choose a password that cannot be found in the dictionary or encyclopedia. You should change your Oracle/Banner password on a regular basis, to maintain the security it provides.

How To Change Your FIS Banner Password
Password Security

How To Change Your FIS Banner Password

Password Change Form (GUAPSWD) enables FIS Banner users to change their FIS Banner (Oracle) password.  Although you are not automatically prompted, we strongly encourage you to change this password every 90 days.  Frequent password changing helps protect the security of our system. 

Be sure to remember your password! If you have forgotten or need to change your password, you need to contact the ITS Support Center and request that your FIS passwords be reset. You will have to appear in person with a photo id at the ITS Support Center (located at 54 Kerr Hall) to get your new password.

________________________FIS PASSWORD RULES
________Your FIS Password must:
___________- be at least 10 characters long
___________- contain a combination of letters and numbers
___________- not contain any special symbols (such as @ # & ! etc.)

1. In the "Go:" field of the Banner Menu Form, type GUAPSWD. Type <return>.

The Password Change Form will open and the ORACLE USER ID field will automatically be populated with your Oracle username (navigation to the ID field is not permitted).

2. When the form opens, the cursor will be located in the ORACLE PASSWORD field. Enter your current Oracle password. (New Users: This is the initial password on sheet you received.) As you enter the password, asterisks (******) will display to protect the privacy of the password. You will not be permitted to navigate to the password change fields until the current password has been entered and validated.

3. <TAB> to the NEW ORACLE PASSWORD field. Type your new password (please refer to FIS Password Rules above). As you enter the new password (as with other password fields), asterisks (******) display to protect the privacy of the new password.
    
4. <TAB> to the VERIFY PASSWORD field. Re-enter the new password in this field exactly as you had entered it in the NEW ORACLE PASSWORD field.
    
5. Click the Save icon .

If the entry in the VERIFY PASSWORD field does not match the entry in the NEW ORACLE PASSWORD field, the message “*ERROR* Password not verified; please re-enter your password” will display in the auto hint line. Follow the procedure again.

If you continue to receive the same error message, review the FIS Password Rules and select a new password.

When both entries match and the password is approved by the system, a window will display with the message “Password has been changed” which you must acknowledge. After acknowledging the message, you will be exited from the form and returned to the menu.

Password Security

Your FIS Banner account is accessed by your userid and confidential password.

Do not let anyone know your password!

If you believe someone else may know your password, change it at once and immediately report it to fis_probs@ucsc.edu. An individual who shares his/her FIS Banner userid and password is responsible for any transactions, whether willful or accidental, entered into the system.
Sharing passwords to financial systems is against UCSC policy and may result in disciplinary action.

Please refer to the following UCSC websites for important information about password security:

UCSC Password Strength and Security Guidelines

UCSC Top 10 List of Good Computing Practices

UCSC Security Awareness Training