Comments on: Linux Set or Change User Password

By: ivonne saucedo

ivonne saucedo — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:38:41 +0000

i want to change my user password on my laptop the one i use to log in

By: Ramesh Adapwar

Ramesh Adapwar — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:11:40 +0000

How a user is able to change his own password /etc/shadow file when he doesn’t have even read permission on it?

By: sravn

sravn — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:30:55 +0000

hi
i forgot the forgot to enter into my linux os…. can u help me how to reset it….

By: satti

satti — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:48:54 +0000

hi!
I am satish. I am student of computer science & I have linux on my machine.
i forgotten the username & password of it.
can u help me for this for changing the username & password.
plz help me.

By: Balaviswanathan

Balaviswanathan — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:49:24 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for the information. Could you please help me how to create virtual screens like tty/8 ty/9 etc.

Thanks in advance

By: DR. HYDE

DR. HYDE — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:37:08 +0000

Hi Karthi, It’s not important what flavor to use…
The good flavor comes from the questioner, I need to add your flavor…
Can you please contact me for the purpose of cooking you in order to extract your flavor?

By: NinjaSysadmin

NinjaSysadmin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:06:07 +0000

#!/bin/sh
for i in $(seq 1 70)
do
useradd -d/home/te$i -m te$i
echo $i:xyz | chpasswd
chage -d 0 $i
done

Notice the echo line? You should also set the line after, which tells users to change their password when they login. You can remove this if you wish.

By: madhusudhana T

madhusudhana T — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:01:52 +0000

set the password by using passwd command how to do in shell scripting

By: mansoorali

mansoorali — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:50:33 +0000

hi
useradd u1
passwd u1

By: karthi

karthi — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:55:53 +0000

hello nandini which flavour r u using…..

By: niono

niono — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:31:59 +0000

I have done the Alt + CTRL + F1, because I’m new user to LINUX how can I know User and the login password?
I just want to know password for whenever i click on the network, i have to enter a password to continue the next command. n I don’t understand why it kept prompt the command to enter the pass. thanks

By: dr nandinee

dr nandinee — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:59:38 +0000

I m dr nandinee in maharastra forgoten my password plz help me

By: ajit

ajit — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:05:01 +0000

fist open the window than Alt+Ctrl+f1 after that login passwd and type use name and password

By: steve

steve — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:12:30 +0000

hello,
i have created 70 users in Ubuntu using following shell script,

#!/bin/sh
for i in $(seq 1 70)
do
useradd -d/home/te$i -m te$i
done

Now i want to set default password say “xyz” to all 70 users (te1 to te70).
How can I do so?
thnx in advance

By: aisha

aisha — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:54:23 +0000

thank you that helped

By: -Pablo-

-Pablo- — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:30:18 +0000

It doesn’t show you a caret but just type ahead. Unix terminals work like that when asking for passwords. Supposedly it’s intended to prevent those looking over your shoulder from seeing how long your password is.

By: aisha

aisha — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:31:30 +0000

when it says type unix password it doesnt let me type what can i do

By: Aamir Ali

Aamir Ali — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:42:35 +0000

Helpful. Thanks.

By: -Pablo-

-Pablo- — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:39:27 +0000

Try logging in as root or using $ sudo passwd username
There you can set whichever password you want, which might not be the case when you run the passwd command as a user.

By: G.Shoba

G.Shoba — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:49:36 +0000

I want to know how to know d previos password of d super user…how can it be done??
or change d password of d superuser without having to know d previous one…is dis possible??
Any help will be greately appritiated…