We want to help you keep your data safe, by making your account more secure. Passwords are the first line of defense against unwanted guests, so you should make your password as difficult as possible to decipher. Avoid names of Tolkien characters. Don't type it in while someone is watching you. Change it regularly, or whenever you think it has been compromised.
Mills also has a number of tools for checking and enforcing security on ella accounts.
These include programs that are run randomly during each day, programs that analyze the password file and send you messages if the program guessed your password and asking you to change it, and programs that remove '.rhosts' files found in student, guest, and share accounts with references to off-campus machines, or login names other than the user's Registered Mills Login Name.