Regarding the new password system: I changed my password last week to see what would happen, especially to previous proposals still under development.

NSF immediately sent me an e-mail saying that "Your SRO has initialized or changed your NSF FastLane Password...since your password has changed by someone other than yourself, FastLane will prompt you to change it the next time you access a function in FastLane".

OK. I then went into FastLane and sure enough I was asked to change my new password.  On that Web page, there is a "cancel" button which allows you to keep the assigned password (something that a lot of folks may do).  Unfortunately if you choose that option you go back to the homepage of FastLane and if you try to log on with that password, you receive a message that reads "You are a non-registered FastLane user, contact your SRO office". Thus, you no longer can get into your existing profile or templates. This is going to confuse a lot of folks, because the SRO office will have to re-issue another password... at least that's how FastLane is operating at the moment.

The good news is that when my boss issued another password and I changed that password, my existing files were still there.

B.T.W- passwords have to have at least six letters or digets (at least one of each) not to exceed 20 characters.

Helen

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