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Linux: Password: Operation: Change: How to change your password? [passwd]

Sep 19th, 2003 08:08
Knud van Eeden,

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Linux: Password: Change: How to change your password? [passwd]

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To change your existing password:

Steps: Overview:

 1. -Type on the command line the command:

      passwd

 2. -Possibly supply the old password

      <your old password>

 3. -Supply the new password

      <your new password>

 4. -Supply again the new password

      <your new password>

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[book: source: Levine, John R. / Levine Young, Margaret - Unix for 
dummies - ISBN: 1-878058-58-4 - first page book]

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To change the existing password of another user, while being the root:

Steps: Overview:

 1. -Type on the command line the command:

      passwd <that userid>

 2. -Possibly supply the old password

      <the old password for that user>

 3. -Supply the new password

      <the new password for that user>

 4. -Supply again the new password

      <the new password for that user>

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For more information, type:

 man passwd

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Internet: see also:

http://www.ahinc.com/linux101/users.htm

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