How Do I Change My Password In Yahoo

Question 1

To do it using control line:

To alter the root password:

                sudo passwd

To change your user password:

                passwd

To change other users password:

                sudo passwd USERNAME

To practice it GUI open up the application User Accounts from the Dash and there y'all can change countersign easily for all users unless the root

Question 2

As a user, you can change your own password in a concluding, using passwd. You will exist asked for the current password and tin can and then enter a new one.

On Ubuntu, in that location ordinarily is no separate password for root. Instead, users with administrator privileges may utilize sudo to run commands every bit a super user.

MaythuxMaythux 77.4k 51 aureate badges 227 silvery badges 262 bronze badges · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-21 06:15:49Z

To do it using control line:

To alter the root password:

                sudo passwd

To change your user password:

                passwd

To change other users password:

                sudo passwd USERNAME

To practice it GUI open up the application User Accounts from the Dash and there y'all can change countersign easily for all users unless the root

answered Feb 21, 2014 at half-dozen:fifteen

MaythuxMaythux

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For other Ubuntu newbs like me, NB that the root password is non the same as "the admin" countersign. If you want to change an admin password for the current user, use the version without sudo. (This was non obvious to me, coming from a Windows background.)

–user486425

May 30, 2016 at 23:21
@ibgib Actually a Linux 'admin' is basically any user that can run equally root. In Windows 'Run as Administrator' is similar to 'sudo'. When y'all run sudo with whatsoever command you are running as root, and thus sudo passwd will reset password for user root. Running passwd volition reset the password for the existing user.

Sep 19, 2016 at 22:26
@ Molten Ice Cheers for your comment! It sounds similar you lot're a Linux guru which is great! My comment is intended for Windows-oriented audiences. My point is that there is a difference between "root" countersign and "the admin" countersign. My experience, coming from a Windows groundwork, had these 2 as equivalent, and and so I used the version with sudo which was of class wrong. This threw me and I had to reread the answer (which is correct) to understand the situation. I posted the comment to help others who may have this same incorrect interpretation of the answer.

–user486425

Sep 21, 2016 at fourteen:52
@ibgib What @Molten Ice was pointing out is that there is no such thing as an 'admin' password for a user. All users have a password. Some users may take admin privileges, which, when using the sudo command, is used to 'prove' that it is really that user at the keyboard. And root is a user that has all admin privileges by default and doesn't need to use sudo to exercise those privileges. (Employ sudo -i to 'become' root.)

Sep 29, 2016 at 16:15
@ibgib: without the intention to come across a bit harsh about your windows background (I've had my share of win95 till winXP likewise, moved to macosx and linux, both personal and professional) my advise is to forget everything you know about sysadmin (as long equally it based on your experience with windows) and start all over in any *cypher environs. (which is, at least that's my experience, great fun!)

January 20, 2017 at 11:21

Answer 2 · 2014-02-21 00:51:56Z

As a user, you can change your own password in a concluding, using passwd. You will exist asked for the current password and tin can and then enter a new one.

On Ubuntu, in that location ordinarily is no separate password for root. Instead, users with administrator privileges may utilize sudo to run commands every bit a super user.

answered Feb 21, 2014 at 0:51

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ok yea just saw this mail http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/irresolute-password-of-specific-account-in-linux-commandline/ just still thanks for clarifying.

Feb 21, 2014 at 0:55
Do I accept to restrta my machine ?! because now I tin can log-out and log-in once more using the former password !! ..

Nov 3, 2017 at 12:02