user password

[Miano, Steven M.]

Open a terminal, su to the user that you would like to change the password for, and use:

passwd

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of rpowersau at gmail.com
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Subject: Re: user password

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:41 AM, andrea phillips <homgirl177 at yahoo.com<mailto:homgirl177 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
hey karl i cant change the rrot can you tell me how to change from root at andrea<mailto:root at andrea> desktop.

>From the command line you can type:

su username

If you are in the gui (Gnome or KDE or.....) environment just log out and then log back in as the different user.


Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com<mailto:k5di at zianet.com>> wrote:
andrea phillips wrote:
> I reset root password how do i reset user password can any help with this matter.
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Use the same method but replace root with the user-name.

Karl


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