Changing password on the Login Screen using the Forgot Password option.
Sign out of your email on the web-based email - click the profile icon in the upper right (or lower left), and Sign Out. Alternativly, open a new Incognito Window in Chrome, or new Private window in Firefox/Safari, new InPrivate window in Edge. Then sign into Wings from the homepage, or paste this direct link into the address bar in the Incognito/Private window: https://wings.uwlax.edu/
Click Forgot Password:
Enter your UW email and click next:
Check your Secondary email address that you added to Okta*. There will be a password reset link in that email (also check junk mail). Then create a new password with the requirements list on that new page.
To sync up your department mac with this new password, get on the Eagle wifi or hard-wired ethernet, and go under the Apple Menu -> Lock Screen. Unlock screen with new password.
* If you didn't add a secondary email to Okta during the initial Okta setup, or later from the myapps.uwlax.edu page, please contact the Help Desk for assistance: