LKBEN11019: Howto change the password for a normal user
LKB | Created: 02/04/2020 | Version: 2 | Language: EN | Rating: 0 | Outdated: False | Marked for deletion: False
Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Latest update: 02/10/2020 | Comment:
Symptom
You need to change a users password because he or sho forgot it
Cause
none
Solution
You log on as root and type
passwd <username>
e.g. passwd lubby1
Now you can set the password. You need to give in the password twice to minimize errors.
If a user wants to change his password, he does not need to enter a username. The paswd command will do.
About the Author
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux in different European countries and different European languages. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform where he is one of the most important contributors and the main developer.