Account

Different account types

There are different account types at the university. They are briefly explained below.

Applicant account

Applicants must register in the applicant portal in order to apply. This account is only valid for the applicant portal. If you are enrolled, you will receive the access data for the university account directly in the applicant portal.

University account

Students receive the university account in the applicant portal.
Staff members and professors receive their account when they start their employment.
External students (guest students, lecturers) can fill out a request for a user-ID.

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Alumni Account

Access is restricted purely to the Alumni portal. Access is granted to all alumni via the registration form, in addition to professors and the Alumi team.

There are multiple possibilities:

Students obtain their identification automatically by using online enrollment inside the application portal. The user-ID and default password can be looked up via the application portal. To do this, simply log in, then click on "Application status" on the (start) "Application overview" page. Then the "Info page" appears and at the bottom are the access data. You must accept the user rules of the library and computer center beforehand. These login credentials are valid for all services (computer login, mail, Moodle, MyFiles, etc.).
Professors and workers of the University obtain a sealed envelope with their credentials and telephone information.
All other users (guest students, lecturers) obtain their credentials via the “Requests”-section of the Computer Centre.

It is important that you change the start password immediately. You can do this easily via our password manager.

There may be different reasons.

You were exmatriculated or your employment has ended. In that case you are no longer entitled to use the IT infrastructure of the University.
Your account was locked due to frequent use of an incorrect password. If your password was wrongly entered multiple times your account is locked for 30 minutes. After that you can log into your account by entering the correct password. Incorrect logins are often a result of capslock or the keyboard language being set wrong.
There may be uncertainties regarding documents or payment for the Students’ Office. Your account is deactivated, if payments weren’t performed or your documents were incomplete. Please refer to the Students’ Office. After successful clarification the Students’ Office will reenable your account.
Your password may contain unsupported special characters. This may be causing you to be able to log in to certain services, but not others. Please change your password by using the “Change password” feature under “Services” and try again.

The user-IDs of members of the University are four digits.

Should a student be studying for longer time at this University, said student might have an eight-digit user-ID. After changing the study program or newly enrolling (not re-registration), the old user-ID gets decommissioned and a new one generated.

At re-registration the user-ID persists.

If you already have a four-digit user-ID, you will keep it forever.

At the point of exmatriculation or the end of employment your legitimation to use the IT-Infrastructure of the University expires. A students’ user-ID is deactivated automatically on the next Monday after the date of exmatriculation. Mail, Blackboard, Netstorage, WLAN-access, Printing, VPN and all other IT-Services are no longer accessible. For workers and professors the account will be deactivated at the date of termination.

Please beware of the following steps to ensure none of your data gets lost:

Save all of your data stored on the H:/ drive on to a storage media of your own.
Save any mails, you may still be needing and ensure any of the senders of mail that sent mail to your University mail address that this address is going to be decommissioned.

Use all of your credit of your printing-account because it will expire.

The easiest way to change your password is via this link: https://sspr.oth-aw.de .

This Link can be found on the website of the Computer Centre.

Alternatively you can change your password on any Windows computer in the University, which supports logging in to your account.

Press <Strg><Alt><Entf> at the same time.
Then in the menu click: “Kennwort ändern”.
You are now prompted to enter the old password and twice the new password.
Length is at least 10 characters and maximum 32 characters special characters are allowed but not mandatory. Advice: Special characters may cause problems with some but not other services (as stated in Account/Credentials: Login doesn't work on my account)
Klick ok or the arrow to the right.
In the following window there may be two lines on the top to the left. If there is one line with STUD and another one with your user-ID, then click on the tree symbol so that only this line is blue in the background.
Now click OK. Your password has been changed.
You now have to refresh your login on any device you have been logged in to (e.g. FILR, easyroam and OTH App).

Vergessenes Passwort zurücksetzen

Go to https://account.adobe.com.
Enter your email address and select next.
Select reset password.
Enter the code sent to your email address or phone number.

If you provided both an email address and a phone number, you can have your code emailed to you instead. Click retrieve code by other means.
In the update password window, type your new password twice (please choose a different Password then the one you are using for your OTH Login) to confirm, and then click update password.

You have successfully updated your password.

If you don't see the Adobe email in your inbox, check the Spam or Junk folder. If you don't find the email there either, see expected emails from Adobe failed to arrive.

Step: Open the following link in your web browser: https://myid.oth-aw.de
Step: Click on the ‘Forgotten password’ option (see image)
Step: Enter your surname in the first field and either the e-mail address of your university or your private e-mail address in the second field, if you have entered one. Finish this step by clicking on ‘Search’.

Step: Select one of the options offered to request the security code. After confirmation, you will be asked to enter a new password!

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