From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jamie Risk" Subject: changing (resetting) users passwords as "root" Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:48:17 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Reply-To: "Jamie Risk" Return-path: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs