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urzumph 03-03-2004 04:37 AM
Lol I forgot a user's password
 
I forgot a user's password (not root's, a normal user)
How can I reset it? I feel like such an idiot, lol

cjcuk 03-03-2004 04:38 AM
`root' can passwd on behalf of another user.

snacky 03-03-2004 04:39 AM
As root, just run "passwd username" where "username" is the user whose password you want to reset.

Also, you can remove the user's password entirely by editing the field to blank in /etc/shadow but this method has some SLIGHT security issues ;)

cjcuk 03-03-2004 04:56 AM
Quote:
Originally posted by snacky
Also, you can remove the user's password entirely by editing the field to blank in /etc/shadow but this method has some SLIGHT security issues ;)
You are probably better off doing `passwd -l $(USERNAME)'.

naren 03-04-2004 05:00 AM
passwd -d <username>
removes password for the user


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