NIU Passwords
Network password
Your initial network password is temporary. Change it to a permanent one at password.niu.edu.
Your network password expires every 130 days. Change or reset it at password.niu.edu.
It is used by students, faculty and staff to access NIU resources:
- E-mail for students and faculty/staff
- MyNIU
- Blackboard
- computer labs
- Novell servers and drives (for example, the H: drive)
- WebCRMA
- dialing in to NIU's Internet service from off campus
- FTP access to Novell user volumes
Workstation password
See your local LANadmin for your initial workstation password and instructions for changing it.
Voice Mail Password
Voice mail passwords do not expire.