Different ways to Update/Change users password in Linux
It’s a basic thing to set a user password whenever you create an user account in Linux. Everybody uses passwd command followed by the user name passwd USERNAME to set a password for a...
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How to Force Users to Change Password on Their Next Login on Linux
When creating a user account with the default password, you will need to force the user’s to change their password on the next login. You should enable this if the system is not integrated...
How to Manage Password Expiration & Aging Using The passwd Command
In first part we already discussed basic things about passwd command such as what is passwd command and how it’s work. Also, we covered the below two topics. 1) How to set/change the root...
How to Change User Password in Linux
You may already know about the password command, which enables users to change their password on a Linux system. Regular users on Linux can only change their password. But the root user (Super User)...
Understanding Linux /etc/passwd File Format
User account creation is one of the basic task for Linux administrator that everyone aware. Do you know where it’s keeping the users information and how to check and understand it? Linux user information...
How to Create an User Without Password on Linux
This article title may awkward to you, but it is useful. You may ask, why would you want to create a user like this? Yes, I too, but this is what I asked for...
How to Change The Root User Password in Linux?
As we already know root is a super user that can do anything in Linux system. It’s similar to Administrator user in Windows. root (Super User) can change any user account password in Linux....
