All members of ETH Zurich receive at the beginning of their study or employment an ETH user name and an ETH password for web applications, AAI (LDAP). They must change this password as soon as possible.

The ETH user name is generated and assigned automatically by the system and cannot be changed – not even in the event of change of the member’s surname (e.g. after marriage).

Further instructions

IT Knowledge Base: ETH user account

• IT Knowledge Base: Onboarding process for ETH members upon entry
• Step by step:
• – With your own computer at ETH: Connect to the Wi-Fi public or public-5
• – Go to the webcenter password.ethz.ch
• – Log in with your ETH username and initial password
• – Provide contact information for reset functionality.
• – Change the initial password for your ETH account (main password)
• – Complete the multi-factor authentication (MFA) registration (more information about MFA registration)
• – To complete the MFA registration, log out and close your browser

Now you need to set a second password to access Wi-Fi.

• – Go to the webcenter password.ethz.ch
• – Log in with your ETH username, the new password and the OTP code from the authenticator app
• – Change the network password (Radius) for your ETH account
• – Log out and close your browser

Now you should be able to connect to the Wi-Fi “euduroam” or “eduroam-5” with “your-username@staff-net.ethz.ch” and your new “second” network password.