Changing the password

You can change your password account in the Accounts Management System (AMS) that you can find in accounts.hfg-karlsruhe.de You will find an interface like this:

The log-in Interface of Account Management System (AMS) of the HfG. There is a Grey Rectangle with a text in German, explaining that here you can change your password. After that, there is a blue text link to webmail.hfg-karlsruhe.de. Outside the rectangle, three text fields for login: Vorname (Name), Nachname (Family name) and Password, with a white button on the bottom for Anmelden, login.

To log in, you need to enter your name, family name and your current password, exactly as introduced when your account was created.

There may be empty spaces (for double names or family names), as well as accents, umlauts or dash.

Then, you will find something like this:

Screenshot of the Accounts Management System, in German. In the top, a gray bar, with different options. In the middle, two panels with big numbers: on the left, the panel with number one offers the possibility of selecting the password with two text fields (new password, repeat password); on the right, number 2, ask to select the account, offering, in checkboxes: all accounts, AMS Account (with a small blue icon of a question mark), Moodle/File server; Thereafter, the title E-Mail Accounts and blurred a checkbox; At the bottom the 3rd option, save, have a big blue button.

It’s pretty clear what the system expect you to do:

  1. Write twice your password in the left panel with a 1
  2. Control for which accounts you want to change the passwords
  3. Save it.

You’re done!

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