Advanced Commands: passwd - Change Password

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Users in Linux have a password assigned. You can change the password using the passwd command.

There are two situations here.

The first is when you want to change your password. In this case you type:

passwd

and an interactive prompt will ask you for the old password, then it will ask you for the new one:

When you’re root (or have superuser privileges) you can set the username of which you want to change the password:

passwd <username> <new password>

In this case you don’t need to enter the old one.

The passwd command works on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: su - Switch User
2: sudo - Superuser Do
3: ▶︎ passwd - Change Password
4: ping - Test Network
5: traceroute - Trace Network Path
6: history - Command History
7: export - Set Environment Variables
8: crontab - Schedule Tasks
9: alias - Create Shortcuts
10: man - Manual Pages
11: tar - Archive Files
12: gzip - Compress Files
13: gunzip - Decompress Files
14: basename - Strip Directory
15: dirname - Extract Directory
16: nano - Text Editor
17: vim - Vi Improved Editor
18: emacs - Text Editor
19: ed - Line Editor
20: How to use Netcat
21: How to download a file from a server using the terminal