Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 14:39:42 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Change password Message-ID: <02010314394203.02042@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20020102002829.H1566-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> References: <20020102002829.H1566-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net>
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On Wednesday 02 January 2002 17:00, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Brian Astill wrote to questions: > > How can I change/delete that user password without knowing the > > password that the system is storing? > > I'm not sure if this is even worthy of a FAQ. :-) > > As root, > > root# passwd fooflock > Changing local password for fooflock. > New password: > Retype new password: > passwd: updating the database... > passwd: done > root# > > Better yet, man passwd :-) Strange - I tried everything I could think of to discover your simple answer - including man passwd. Obviously I didn't understand you could do this without knowing the stored password - the docs referred to the encrypted version. I even tried yppasswd ! Thanks for your help. -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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