Use ADPassMon to Reset your Canisius Password

Owned by Greg Rusch
Oct 04, 2018
2 min read

The following wiki is for Canisius Faculty and Staff with campus-owned Macintosh computers.

OS 10.9 or higher is required

Overview

In the past, Mac users may have noticed an issues with their keychains after changing their password through the website: canisius.edu/passwordreset. Installing ADPassMon alleviates this issues by natively changing the password through the Macintosh Architecture, avoiding the corruption of the keychain. ADPassMon displays the number of days until your password is set to expire and allows you to change your Canisius password

 

How to install ADPassMon

Step 1: Close all programs and save all work. A restart is required during the installation.

Step 2: Open Self Service in the Applications folder

Note: Self Service is available for users that have enrolled their Mac. Please contact the ITS Help Desk x8340 to schedule an enrollment.

Note: Self Service is not available off campus.

Step 3: Install ADPassMon on the front page of Self Service

Note: Your Mac will restart following the completion of the install

Step 4: Log back in after the restart, select the icon on the top right with the number of days remaining (see below)
Step 5: Reset Password

Note:

  • Your password must have the following properties

    • At least 8 characters long
    • A mixture of alphabetic characters and numbers
    • At least one "special character" (like dash, underscore, pound, exclamation point...)
      • Allowed special characters are ! # % * + - / : ? and _ 
      • Disallowed special characters are @ $ & “ ( ) , < > ` = ; and the space character 
    • Passwords are case-sensitive so it is also good (but not required) to mix upper and lower case
Step 6: Happy Computing