To change the password for your user code on Central Servers:

From the User Account Management Page:

Sign in to User Account Management web page with your user code and password from the address below
https://useraccount.metu.edu.tr
Then click Change Password.

Users must create their passwords according to the following rules:

Mandatory elements in passwords are:

• The password must be a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 25 characters.
• The password must contain at least one uppercase letter (ABCD… .Z).
• The password must contain at least one lower case letter (abcd… z).
• The password must contain at least one number (1234567890).
• The password must contain at least one of the special characters (?*!^...%) on the Q keyboard layout.

Elements that should not be included in passwords are:

• The password cannot contain a space character.
• The password cannot contain 1900s or 2000s. (1978, 1999, 2001, etc.)
• The password cannot contain consecutive numbers of 4 or more characters. (1234, 2345, 5678, etc.)
• The password cannot contain Turkish-specific characters. (ç, ğ, İ, ö, ş, ü…)
• The password cannot contain non-ASCII characters. (ä, é, Ý, Ð, Π etc.)
• The password cannot contain an easily predictable word or dictionary word, all uppercase or lowercase.
• The new password cannot be the same as the last 5 passwords, if any.

Sample Passwords:

• Polutk836*
• Dem70:ka2b
• A2K/mReD48cZ!4
• 2F,646(wtgRdN4#kL
• EO*A(/5ybh;pTq3uRw
• g1>4YjT5r3jlmZjJGU4
• o)5aDA-9e2xNWYz?8cyMzV1Zr