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Why is it necessary to change my user id?
How will this affect me?
What will happen to e-mail sent to my previous addresses?
When do I need to change my user id?
What e-mail address should I share with people?
How do I select my user id?
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- The directory service we use is a significant resource for applications needing access to identity information. The user id is one such piece of the identity information associated with you. In the future, more applications will use the directory to identify you. Furthermore, information contained in the directory will be used to determine access rights to certain information. As the University moves more resources and service delivery to the Web, the use of your id will become common.
To improve the delivery of University resources and services, you are required to select a single user id that you will use to access secure online University services, including Glue, WAM, DEANS, Corporate Time, and the University Directory (ldap). This user id also defines your e-mail address at the University.
As you have probably noticed, other universities have e-mail extensions that directly contain the universities' names, without words like Glue, WAM, and DEANS. We are changing our systems so that all University faculty, staff, and students can be reached at an @umd.edu address.
Please note that this change will not affect any other system other than Glue, WAM, DEANS, and the University Directory (ldap).
How will this affect me?
- We suggest you use an @umd.edu e-mail account that is forwarded to one of your existing accounts.
You will change your existing account names so they all use the same user id.
For example, if you use e-mail accounts with different names, like brown@Glue.umd.edu and terry@WAM.umd.edu, you will need to choose one of the two user ids that precede the @ sign. The user id name you choose will apply to all University systems, including Glue, WAM, DEANS, and the University Directory (ldap).
Eventually, we will request you to have only one e-mail address on one system. Your @umd.edu e-mail would always reach you at that address as long as you are a University member who keeps a current e-mail address.
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- Mail sent to your previous address(es) will be forwarded
to your account for at least one year.
However, if you are a student, you will need to check Testudo
and make sure your user id is the one you chose: www.testudo.umd.edu.
Your information will get updated in the University Directory.
If you are a faculty or staff member, you need to check
ARES and make sure your user id is the one you chose: www.ares.umd.edu.
Your information will get updated in the University Directory.
You should change all references to your previous address(es),
including: - -Department listings (including online department information)
- -In-press publications
- -Listserv mailing lists
Also contact the people who e-mail you at your previous
address(es).
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- We would like to have this change made as soon as possible.
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- We suggest that you use an @umd.edu address that can be forwarded to one of your accounts. This will allow you to have a permanent address that can always be forwarded regardless of system changes.
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- First, make sure that you know what all of your current user ids are in the
directory, WAM, Glue, and Deans (your user id on Glue and Deans should already
be the same). You can find your directory id by visiting https://www.directory.umd.edu/search
and entering your name in the search box. The word that appears after your
name with a dash is your directory id.
- Once you know all of your ids, decide which one you want to keep (or if you want a completely different id), and then contact the OIT Help Desk at 301.405.1500. They will work with you to make sure that the id you want is available and that mail forwarding will be put in place on your old user ids if you so desire, and then they will submit the user id change request for you. The id change make take a few days to process due to the timing of system updates and the volume of id changes requested.
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