Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:42:11 -0400 From: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password Message-ID: <200510042142.16662.nb_root@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <20051005013628.92865.qmail@web54613.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20051005013628.92865.qmail@web54613.mail.yahoo.com>
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--nextPart4709497.HlRJdbEhDT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On October 4, 2005 09:36 pm, sulie halim wrote: > Hi there, > > i am new to freebsd, and now working as an > administrator of my college system, which using > freebsd. my question is, if i have 50 users in the > systems, how can i view all their usernames and > passwords? this because i always have problems of them > forgot thier passwords, and they can't log in to the > systems. until now, what i did was, delete their > usernames, and create new ones because i didn't know > what their passwords either. so any other alternative? > > help me. Thanks. > You can't view their passwords unless you (or they) saved them in a databas= e=20 (which you (they) should really NOT).=20 To change a user's passwod without making a new account, use the 'passwd'=20 command as root: [nicblais] ~> su Password: [root] /home/nicblais# passwd freakuser Changing local password for freakuser New Password: Retype New Password: Nicolas. =2D-=20 =46reeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Oct 1 11:51:38 EDT 2005 =20 root@clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A=20 PGP? : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc --nextPart4709497.HlRJdbEhDT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDQy94z38ton5LGeIRAhM1AJsFI6FVTnxwZ9e09wLqAsH6EFEQNQCeKvp9 IQWV2Qctu3O1ONVV52ZnO7Y= =AcOI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4709497.HlRJdbEhDT--
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