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Old 03-07-2005, 04:50 PM   #1
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Changing root passwords in *nix

What the commnad?

pwd?
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Old 03-07-2005, 04:52 PM   #2
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Old 03-07-2005, 04:53 PM   #3
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pwd is current directory
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post your old pass and somebody will change it for you


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Old 03-07-2005, 04:59 PM   #5
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Old 03-07-2005, 05:01 PM   #6
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passwd <password>
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Old 03-07-2005, 05:02 PM   #7
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Login as root and use passwd <new password>
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Old 03-07-2005, 05:02 PM   #8
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passwd <password>
Uh...

Don't you mean "passwd <username>"?
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Old 03-07-2005, 05:14 PM   #10
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Uh...

Don't you mean "passwd <username>"?
thats if you want to change a specific user sited

when logged in as the user 'passwd' will change the current user's pass

so logged in as root it would change roots pass
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Old 03-07-2005, 05:34 PM   #11
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thats if you want to change a specific user sited

when logged in as the user 'passwd' will change the current user's pass

so logged in as root it would change roots pass
What I meant was, you do not provide the new password on the command line as an argument, like your example suggested.
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