Your Physics department account (also known as your Active Directory or AD account) is used to log you into centrally managed services in the department such as desktop systems, network services and web based applications. When you arrive in the department, the details of your account and password will have been sent to the admin staff based in your sub-department so you should contact them to get started.

The username for all staff, graduate students and visitors will usually be your surname but if someone else already has that account name some letters from your first name may be added to the end. 

Undergraduates username will be your Oxford University SSO username.

When you have logged in to a Windows computer you can change your password by pressing ctrl+alt+del at the same time, then click the Change a password option
If you are logged in remotely to a Windows system or terminal server, press ctrl+alt+end instead and this will give you the Change a password option

Linux and Apple users follow the forgotten or do not know your current Physics password guide below.

Forgotten or do not know your current Physics password.

If you have forgotten or do not know your current Physics password then please visit https://arche.physics.ox.ac.uk/ 

• Click on the "Forgot your password?" tab beneath the login button
• When requested, enter just your username without PHYSICS\ or @.... i.e BlackJ not BlackJ@ox.ac.uk
• Select your Domain from the dropdown box the default for most users will be PHYSICS while external users may use EXTERNAL
• Type the captcha (string of wavy text and numbers) into the "Type the captcha" box
  • If you can't read the captcha, click the circular arrows to the right of the text box to get a new one - the captchas are not case-sensitive
• Select your email address from the drop-down menu, click continue
• When you receive the verification code via email, enter the code into the text box, then enter the captcha below and click continue
  • If you do not receive the verification email promptly, you can click Resend when the 99-second timer runs out
  • NOTE: YOU ARE NOT BEING TIMED TO ENTER THE CODE, the timer is only counting down before you can resend the code if you need to
• Enter your new password and confirm, then click reset password

Your password must be at least 16 characters in length have a combination of at least three of the following uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation characters but can include words just avoid popular phrases, lyrics, and film quotes etc.

If you have been asked "Please answer the following question(s) as per your enrolment profile to reset your password" then you have misentered your username or domain go back to the previous page and re-enter your username.

If you have any problems with the password reset process please visit one of the IT offices in either the Clarendon or the DWB

Please change your physics password as soon as possible after receiving your account details. Assuming you know your current physics password you can change it either via the usual `change password` commands on the desktop systems or via the web at
https://arche.physics.ox.ac.uk/  and use the "Forgot Your Password?". option

As well as a physics account, all staff and grad students are given a University Single Sign On (SSO) account which is of the form abcd1234. This gives you access to services run by the Campus IT services such as the campus email system etc.
To manage your University of Oxford SSO login details, you need to visit the University account management pages at https://webauth.ox.ac.uk/.