Reset Password
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12 years ago 16 |
The easiest method of resetting a user’s account password in Linux is to use the passwd command. To do it on Linux Mint or any Linux distribution that uses sudo, start a shell terminal and type the following command:
- sudo passwd
You will, of course, be prompted to authenticate with your current password before you are given the opportunity of changing it. On a distribution that does not use sudo, call the passwd command without sudo.
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Worked great but little confused when cursor did not move or reflect any echo of any kind yet did work as I suspected. thanx
I need to find a place to change the password of this website login. I cannot find where it is changed, because I forgot it, but then I got a crazy one via email which I need to change. Can someone point to me where is the password to access this site?... Thanks
worked fine thanks
thnks
thank you
That´s very easy, thank you! :)
You are welcome, @crismblog !
Thank you for your swift response.
@kazztan0325
Thanks for the warning.
Now the image is seen again.
@crismblog:
I cannot see the image which you have attached to this tutorial.
It seems the link to the image file is dead.
( http://crismblog.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/passwd.png )
Super.
Short and sweet. Nice :)
Also, if you are on a system with more than one user, running sudo passwd other-user-name will allow you to just as easily change their password.
An excellent to-the-point article.