Change your password

Change your password

To change your password, follow these steps:

1. Go to Profile.
2. In the Change password section, in the Current password field, enter your current password.
3. In the New password field, enter a password of at least 10 characters.
4. Click Change password.

Every other session is signed out. Your current session remains signed in. For more information, see Sessions.

Set a password for an account created from GitHub

An account that was created from GitHub has no password until you set one.

To set a password, follow these steps:

1. Go to Profile.
2. In the Set a password section, in the New password field, enter a password of at least 10 characters.
3. Click Set password.

A password lets you sign in without GitHub, and you need one before you can disconnect GitHub. For more information, see Connected accounts.

Password rules

A password is 10 to 200 characters long, and it can't be the same as your email address or your username.