UW NetID: Your Ticket to Computing Services at the UW

The UW community has access to a wide range of network computing services, each of which requires that you authenticate (verify) who you are. Such verification helps ensure the privacy of your personal information and restricts the use of services to those for whom they are intended. To make access to these services more secure and consistent, the UW is consolidating the number of different identifications you need.

To make that happen, C&C has adopted an authentication service based on a security technology called Kerberos in which each person has just one personal network identification: a UW NetID. With your UW NetID, you can log in to a UW modem pool, a desktop email service, or a UWired lab or Uniform Access computer. Additional services will be added in the future.

If you were on campus before Summer Quarter 1998 and have an account on a Uniform Access computer (such as Homer or Dante), then you already have a UW NetID. It is the same as your login name.

If you are a new UW faculty, staff, or student, you can apply for a UW NetID on the Web and then choose the services you want to use. More information about UW NetID is on the Web at www.washington.edu/computing/uwnetid/