Re: Password trouble
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:40:01 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 02/24/2020 11:23 AM, Beartooth wrote:
> useradd -h as root got me nothing that seemed to enable even root
> to edit a user's data. (I tried -p and -u.) Can I do it??
Try this: first, use su - to become root. Then, as root:
passwd $USERNAME
This will (or at least should) allow you to change the user's password
without needing to know the old one.
Well, I tried it:
# passwd $xxxx
Changing password for user root.
New password:
IOW, when I actually gave it one, it changed *root's* password,
and I had to change that back. That's worse.
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Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
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