How to reset a uesr's password
Chad
chad at oscar.cs.byu.edu
Sun Jun 30 03:10:17 AEST 1991
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In article <1014 at lhdsy1.chevron.com>, yzarn at lhdsy1.chevron.com (Philip
Yzarn de Louraille) writes:
||>In article <1991Jun25.190902.4070 at shark.uucp>
qiangli at gauss.casr.fau.edu (Charlie Li) writes:
|>>In case a user forgot his password, how can "root" help on this?
|>vipw? How
|>>to make the new password field entry?
|>>
|>>I know at least I can removeuser and then adduser back on, but seems
|>not
|>>the best way to do it.
|>>
|>>Thank you for your advice.
|>>
|>>Charlie Li
|>
|>Delete all the characters found between the first two ":" in the
|>etc/passwd
|>Then make a passwd for your user, then tell him/her what it is, then
|>tell that person to change it.
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|>yzarn at chevron.com
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Better yet, as root just
# passwd username
This will change the password for that user.
You don't need to delete anything from /etc/passwd.
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Chad Leigh
Brigham Young University / on leave from DEC
chad at yvax.byu.edu / chad at norge.enet.dec.com
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