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Your UA NetID (with password) is your personal identification for using UA online resources. A UA NetID is required of everyone associated with the University of Arizona who plans on using online central administrative programs and computing services. With your UA NetID, you are eligible for various computing services depending on your association with the UA (i.e, student, faculty, staff, or other Department Sponsored Visitor).
Your computing services include interfaces used to access:
UA NetID usernames will no longer be recycled (since 3/3/2008)
Your UA NetID verifies who you are when you use the many UA network services. Such verification ensures the privacy of your personal information and restricts the use of resources to those for whom they are intended. To make access to such services more secure and consistent, the UA has consolidated the identifications you need to just one: the UA NetID.
For example: You must first have a UA NetID before you can create an email or U-system computer account.
You have just one personal UA NetID, no matter how many different associations you have with the UA (e.g., student and staff, faculty and student. Your personal UA NetID is for your use only.
You will need the following based on your U of A affiliation to create your UA NetID.
STUDENT: Student ID, and your student pin number
FACULTY: Cat Card number, and Employee ID number
STAFF: Cat Card number, and Employee ID number
RETIREE: Cat Card number, and Employee ID number
Department Sponsored Visitors: Contact the 24/7 IT Support Center Administrative and Instructional Support Team at (520) 621-2985.
If you are a visiting scholar, post doc, adjunct, volunteer, or a temporary hire contact Administrative and Instructional Support at 621-2985.
To create a UA NetID go to netid.arizona.edu and click on "Create UA NetID" Follow the steps to setup your UA NetID. This will create a username and password for you, but it will NOT create your actual email account.
Go to https://netid.arizona.edu/
Click on "change UA NetID settings"
Click on " Change your UA NetID "secret hint""
Follow the instructions.
Call the 24/7 IT Support Center at (520) 626-5544 so that we can verify specific information or you can visit the 24/7 IT Support Center Administrative and Instructional Support Team in the Martin Luther King Jr. building, Room 207 between the hours of 7 am - 5 pm Mon-Fri.
You must bring a picture ID.
If you have not received your Cat Card, or employee ID, contact
your department admin to obtain this information.
Yes the passwords are the same.
NOTE: If you change your UA Net ID Password it WILL change your email account password as well.
You can keep your UA NetID for as long as you are an active employee or student. You will also keep your UA NetID for 18 months after your status has changed to inactive. NetID's are no longer recycled.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you change your UA NetID username, it will also change your email account username to match the new UA NetID that you have chosen, and may possibly affect your ability to receive email to your university account.
If you have changed your UA NetID username, some of the people or services you will need to notify are:
18 months after your official UA status changes to inactive.
Contact the 24/7 IT Support Center Administrative and Instructional Support Team at 520-621-2985
UAPublic is an unsecured wireless network for visitors to the University who are working with University employees for short visits or projects (on the order of a week or two, give or take). UAPublic provides the same bandwidth, NO encryption, and features as UAWiFi. If you are visiting the University for a conference or meeting, or perhaps you are a vendor working with a University department, this is probably the network for you. Your sponsor will need to renew your access every twenty days, so if you are visiting for an extended period of time you should obtain a Department Sponsored Visitor Account and use UAWiFi instead.
A Department Sponsored Visitor will need an Department Sponsored Visitor ID and pin number which are created by their department sponsor.
Contact your department administrative assistant for sponsor information.
If the department admin does not have the sponsor information, or has questions concerning sponsoring a Department Sponsored Visitor, have the department admin contact the 24/7 IT Support Center Administrative and Instructional Support Team at 520-621-2985, or see:
The periodic password change will increase the personal security of University community members and help protect business, research and academic resources throughout the University.
Your password will remain effective for 45, 90, 180 or 360 days, depending on its strength, as determined during the change process.
Your account still exists, but you will not be able to access any University resources that require UA NetID—such as email—until you have changed your password.
Yes. Some applications can save your password so that you don't have to enter it each time you run the applications. Each of these applications will need to be updated.
For example, in Eudora for Windows, if you have used the "Remember password for this personality" option, you'll need to click the "Forget Password(s)" command under the "Special" menu to clear the old password. The password clearing process will vary from application to application.
For assistance with other applications, contact:
Once every 24 hours
If you or someone else makes seven unsuccessful consecutive attempts to enter your password, the application blocks additional attempts for 15 minutes as a security measure.
If you need access sooner:
