Change your submit server initial password

Using the Username and Initial password you receive via email in step 3, you need to login to the IOCCC submit server.

IMPORTANT NOTE: You must change your password WITHIN 72 HOURS from when one of the IOCCC judges sent that email.

NOTE: The IOCCC submit server is ready for submissions ONLY WHEN THE CONTEST IS open. See current status of the IOCCC for details on the contest status.

IMPORTANT NOTE: When the contest is closed, the IOCCC submit server may be offline and unreachable as a web site.

To login and change your password, open https://submit.ioccc.org in your browser. It should look like this:

The username is the UUID you were provided when you registered for the IOCCC and the password is the initial password you were provided with. Click “Login”.

If this is the first time you have logged in with this UUID, you will be required to change your password.

Assuming everything is fine, it should look something like:

As you can see, you have to change your password. Put in your login (UUID username), your old (initial) password and a new password. For instance:

Click “Change Password”.

Once this is done, you will be able to log in again with your UUID username and new password. This is what it will look like when you change your password:

When the contest is open, proceed with Step 5: Obtain and compile the latest mkiocccentry toolkit.