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Creating Your Schlumberger Secure SSA Email Password ID: 14252
Creating Your Schlumberger Secure SSA Email Password

With the upcoming migration of the SSA LDAP directory being moved to a Schlumberger server, it is important that your SSA Email password meet the SLB security specific requirements. If your password is not Schlumberger secure once the migration is complete, you will need to open a ticket with the SSA helpdesk in order to get it changed. This means if you wish to be able to access your SSA email account without any problems after the move, you need to change your SSA email password now using the following guidelines.

The Schlumberger password security requirements are:

  • contains 7-14 characters (eight characters is optimal)
  • uses at least one upper case letter
  • uses at least one special character
  • uses at least one number
  • uses as many character types possible (upper and lower-case letters, numbers, symbols)
  • cannot be found in a dictionary.  For example, D0gb0n# can be found in the dictionary as Dogbone  (the letter o is keyed as zero, and the letter e is keyed as #)

Examples of passwords that meet Schlumberger security standards:

  • mVy6@oz?
  • aBc1@3aB
  • mE>8(ooW
  • l8r?g8r!
  • gRn8gs&H*(wK)

Follow the steps below will help you change your password now to meet these standards

Create a security password

There are websites that will help you generate passwords that will pass Schlumberger’s password security test. Strong Password Generator website (http://www.mytsoftware.com/dailyproject/PassGen/PassGen.html) will generate secure passwords. Below is a picture of the form you will find on the page. You need to fill in the password length, number of passwords you want to create, and pick password format of base95. Then you click the “Generate” button.

Below image shows the Strong Password Generator after it has created passwords.

 

Test your chosen password for the level of security

You can test the password you use to use at SecurityStats.com website (http://www.securitystats.com/tools/password.php) to see how secure your chosen password is. This website contains many more password Do’s and Don’ts. This website will hide the characters you are entering so others around you will not see the password you are checking. The form will appear as pictured below once you have entered the password you are testing.

When you enter grape as a password to test you got the below results.

This means that grape does not pass the security test and it will not pass Schlumberger’s password security test either.

Next you entered gre3enegg5s as your password and receive the following results.

Again this password will not pass Schlumberger’s password security test.

You then entered mE>8)ooW, one of the passwords from that was generated by the Strong Password Generator. Your results are shown below.

This means you now have a Schlumberger acceptable password.

 

Changing Your SSA Email password

The next step to update my SSA email password using this new password. Click the link “Edit My Profile” (http://mail.ssafara.net:5002/cgi-bin/update-record.cgi) on the left side of SSAfara.net homepage.

The following “Choose a digital certificate” message may appear. Click the “OK” button to continue.

You will need to fill out the form below using your current password. Pick “Password” as the Update choice.

You will be taken to the following form:

Enter your new Schlumberger secure password and click the “Change Password” button. You will see the below image if your password was changed successfully.

If you the two passwords you type in do not match, you will receive the following error:

This means you need to try again.

 

Please contact ssa-support@slb.com with any problems or questions you have about changing your SSA email password.

By Melodie Beveridge, SSA Global IT Coordinator
UPDATE CONTENT Last Updated: 4-Feb-2008

Password Support ID: 11611
I want to...
 What this password does
 How to change it
 When to change it
Change my Email/Directory password
 Use this password to read email or update your own contact information in the SSA Directory.
 www.ssafara.net
click Edit My Profile
Or click here.
 For your security, please change this password at least once every six months.
Get a new SSAfara.net Web password
Use this password to download software, read SSA internal websites, and to view the SSA member directory.
 Click any ‘Forgot Password?’ link:
Or click here.
If you are having problems getting an error message "The email address you entered was not found in the file.", please use the SSA Support form. Use your SSAfara.net email address on this form. SSA Support will fix the problem. 		Does not expire
Change my SSAfara.net Web password
 Use this password to download software, read SSA internal websites, and to view the SSA member directory.
 Click here.
Does not expire
Change my Schlumberger Dialup password
 This account allows you to dial up to to your Schlumberger ISP account to access the Internet.
 http://ldap.slb.com/update-record.cgi
select Update password
Or Click here (only if you are already connected to the Schlumbertger intranet)
 For your security, please change this password at least once every six months.

Still need help? Ask SSA Support

UPDATE CONTENT Last Updated: 12-Jul-2007



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