To change your password in Unix, you can use the passwd
command.
For example, to change your password, you can run the passwd
command and follow the prompts:
passwd
This will ask you to enter your current password and then to enter your new password twice to confirm it.
If you are logged in as the root
user or if you are using sudo
to run the passwd
command, you can also use it to change the password for another user. For example, to change the password for the user bob
, you can use the following command:
passwd bob
This will ask you to enter the new password for the user bob
twice to confirm it.
Note that some Unix systems may have policies in place that require passwords to meet certain criteria, such as a minimum length or the use of a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers, and special characters. If you receive an error when trying to change your password, it may be because your new password does not meet these criteria.
Overall, the passwd
command is a simple and convenient way to change your password in Unix.