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Re: Password Change



On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Mike Thunholm wrote:

> Ok, what if the users account name is admin ( not root )  what is the 
> whole command for that user, every time I try and change admin it says 
> changing root password, which is fine because I need to change that as 
> well.

Have you tried `passwd admin` ?

    $ sudo passwd admin
    Changing password for admin.
    New password: ...

Normally that should work, but maybe the name "admin" is a special case.

:-/


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