Changing the user account password seems to take forever. Do any of you have this problem?
1 Answer
Simple command:
sudo passwd $USER
where $USER
is name of user account or just
passwd
to change the password of the account you are running command from, then type ur current password and then new password and then retype it. :)
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sudo passwd
is not the same aspassword
!passwd
changes the password for the user running the command, withsudo
this becomes root. Usesudo passwd $USER
to change the password for user$USER
Feb 9, 2012 at 21:07