What is the Password Challenge Response System?
The Onyen Password Challenge Response System is a service UNC provides for student, faculty and staff members who have forgotten their passwords and wish to reset them without physically coming to the IT Response Center or faxing over proof of identity. The Response System requires you to initally set up three questions that are randomly generated by the system. For each of these questions, you must choose an answer that is unique to you. These questions can be used as a ‘challenge’ to your future password reset requests if you ever forget your password. The challenge questions basically are used to prove your identity before a new password is given. All that is required to sign into the system is an Onyen and PID number. This system is intended mostly for those involved in distance education programs and other off-campus users.
