[Techtalk] resetting a password

[Laurel Fan]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 06:05:02PM -0500, Jennifer Davis wrote:
> I am surprised this has not come up earlier.  A friend reinstalled
> windows, or at least had it reinstalled on her pc, who had a mailbox on my
> linux box, forgot what her password was.  I never knew what it was?  Is
> there a way of retreiving them or reseting them?  By the way, it's a slack
> 8 system.

There's no easy way of retreiving it, so you'll have to just change
it.

as root, use the command:

passwd username

to change the password of the user with name username.