From: "Jamie Risk" <jamie_risk@yahoo.ca>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: changing (resetting) users passwords as "root"
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:48:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <au7sp3$a6k$1@main.gmane.org> (raw)
I'm a little confused about adding users on my linux box.
The box was setup with nothing more than a root user and
group.
When I add users ("useradd") I'm thwarted by the "-p" option.
As "root", I don't know how to set a user's password. After I
create the account (without using the useradd's "-p" option),
how can set the password of the new user?
I'm prompted for the old password, which I've no idea what it
is.
I'm purposefully working with a fairly minimalist Linux
distribution (i.e. no clever scripts provided to help with such).
By doing this is turning out to be a terrific mechanism for
inflicting rudimentary Unix admin lessons on myself.
- Jamie
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2002-12-23 20:48 Jamie Risk [this message]
2002-12-23 21:07 ` changing (resetting) users passwords as "root" Ray Olszewski
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