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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Open a terminal, su to the user that you would like to change the password for, and use:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] <b><span style="font-weight:
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</span></b>rpowersau@gmail.com<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:54 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> homgirl177@comcast.net; Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: user password</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
12.0pt">On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:41 AM, andrea phillips <<a href="mailto:homgirl177@yahoo.com">homgirl177@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt">hey karl i cant change the rrot can you tell me how to change from
<a href="mailto:root@andrea" target="_blank">root@andrea</a> desktop.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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>From the command line you can type:<br>
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su username<br>
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If you are in the gui (Gnome or KDE or.....) environment just log out and then log back in as the different user.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Karl Larsen <<a href="mailto:k5di@zianet.com" target="_blank">k5di@zianet.com</a>></span></i></b> wrote:
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12.0pt">andrea phillips wrote:<br>
> I reset root password how do i reset user password can any help with this matter.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> thanks<br>
><br>
> <br>
> ---------------------------------<br>
> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.<br>
> <br>
Use the same method but replace root with the user-name.<br>
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Karl<br>
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