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| B – Command Line Interface | |
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| Passwd Command | |
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Passwd Command |
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| Changes a user account’s password. | ||
Authority | Admin to change another account’s password; User to change your own. | ||
Syntax | passwd [account_name] |
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Keywords | [account_name] |
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| The user account name. You must open an admin session to change the | ||
| password for an account name other than your own. If you omit [account_name], | ||
| you will be prompted to change the password for the current account name. | ||
Examples | The following is an example of the Passwd command: | ||
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| Press ’q’ and the ENTER key to abort this command. | ||
| account OLD password | : |
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| account NEW password | : |
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please confirm account NEW password:
password has been changed.