On Fri, 31 Mar 2017, John Jason Jordan wrote: > From the command line I tried passwd, but it refused because it said the > new password was too similar to the old one. OK, passwd program, I don't > disagree, but just do it, and I mean it, 'k?
John, Run passwd as root (sudo, for you I believe) and specify the user whose password you're changing. You can also use chpasswd (man 8 chpasswd) -- as root -- using, chpasswe jjj:<newpassword>. Others will correct my advice if I've lead you down the wrong path. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
