password changing

bshearer · 04-26-2005, 09:24 AM

i'm probably telling my age here but way back in the at&t unix days it was easy to change a password.

but for the life of me it ain't working now

so...how would one go about changing a password at the prompt

thanks

scuzzo84 · 04-26-2005, 10:08 AM

hello, please refer to the handbook password section here my brother!

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO....html#AEN18564

bshearer · 04-26-2005, 10:12 AM

i was beginning to wonder

after several google searches nothing relevant would popup or work.

i should of thought of this.

thx

reddazz · 04-26-2005, 10:13 AM

The "passwd" command for changing passwords should work on most *nix systems.