Harvest System Administrators must assign a Harvest Webstation password for you when establishing your personnel settings. After the initial assignment, you may modify your password from the Change Password menu link or when Harvest Webstation prompts you to when you sign in.

Changing Your Password at Sign In Prompt

1. If the security option to check for expired passwords has been enabled in Harvest, Harvest Webstation automatically prompts you to update your expired password on the Change Password page after you sign in. See Sign In for more information.
2. Enter your existing password in the Current Password field, then type your new password in the New Password and Retype Password fields. Note that the password field accepts punctuation characters, which are excellent characters to use in passwords for security reasons. Harvest Webstation will clear any spaces before or after your password; however, you may use spaces within your password.
3. Click Save.
4. Harvest Webstation checks to see if the new password passes the system-wide password setting criteria for minimum characters, minimum alphabetic characters, and minimum numeric characters, if they have been set in Harvest. See the Harvest online help for more information.
5. Harvest Webstation will also verify that the new password has not been used recently.
6. If the password you enter is not valid for some reason, Harvest will prompt you to enter a different password.
7. Once Harvest Webstation validates the new password, the program permits access to those areas for which you have the proper security access.

Manually Changing Your Password

1. To manually change your password at any time, click the Change Password menu link.
2. The Change Password page appears.

Note that this page only appears if you have the necessary security setting to reset your own password. Otherwise, Harvest Webstation will alert you that you do not have access.

3. Enter your existing password in the Current Password field, then type your new password in the New Password and Retype Password fields. Note that the password field accepts punctuation characters, which are excellent characters to use in passwords for security reasons. Harvest Webstation will clear any spaces before or after your password; however, you may use spaces within your password.
4. Click Save.
5. Harvest Webstation checks to see if the new password passes the system-wide password setting criteria for minimum characters, minimum alphabetic characters, and minimum numeric characters, if they have been set in Harvest. See the Harvest online help for more information.
6. Harvest Webstation will also verify that the new password has not been used recently.
7. If the password you enter is not valid for some reason, Harvest will prompt you to enter a different password.
8. Once Harvest Webstation validates the new password, the program permits access to those areas for which you have the proper security access.

Updating or Changing Your Password Reset Questions

1. Click Authentication Questions to change the authentication questions the program will present to you when you forget your password on the Sign In page.
2. The Change Authentication Questions page appears. Select a question from the Question # drop-down list and type the corresponding answer in the Answer field. You may also enter a question in the Custom question field.
3. Repeat this process to define three questions for the program to use when resetting your password.
4. Click Save to return to the Change Password page.