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Hi. I recently accidentally forgot my user password to my shell. I know the root password. How do I change the user password?
I figure it's something like
$su root $passwd -[something] username
but I can't get it to work. Halp pls?
Started by mechko on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Then you can login and changejust "passwd mechko" I think, if you're logged as root ? tried it ? as existing password use roots the password..
The password field for that user in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow .
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After resetting a users password in Active Directory, if the user tries to log in using their old password, the following code validates as True:
Dim up As UserPrincipal = GetAdUser(objContext, arg_strBA, arg_strUsername) If up IsNot Nothing Then Dim ...
Started by Dirk on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
This is done to enable users.
If that is the case, then it has the old (successful) password cached.
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How to change in postgresql password of the user using SQL. I have user (alex) and his password (e.g. pass) i need to change using sql statement his password to NULL...
Started by Alexander on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
You can only log in without a password if your pg_hba.conf....
Unfortunately, that doesn't let you log in with a blank password.
You want
ALTER ROLE alex SET PASSWORD TO NULL
You will of course have to do this as a Postgres superuser.
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How do I change my windows xp password from the command line? I tried password/passwd etc. commands but none of them exist.
Started by Bala on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Net user USERNAME PASSWORD /DOMAIN
See this webpage for how to do this..
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I'd like to change the password of another user, as root, but don't want the user to be prompted to change their password when the log in. As far as I can tell, any mechanism to change the password as root set the ADMCHG flag in /etc/security/passwd
Started by Ryan Emerle on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Man pwdadm pwdadm -c.
If it's a one-off then change it to a temp password, then login as that user and change it to the desired password.
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If I change the SA password for a Microsoft SQL Server, can I see in a log or a trace if some application somewhere is trying to log in with the old password?
Started by nray on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
No one ever wants to change this password unsafe to not change....
Change the password and see who screams often, it's even more of a reason to make the change.
Example scripts: SQL Server Audit in SQL Server 2008.
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When I'm working locally, I don't really need to enter my password to access my database. I changed my root password when I first installed mysql, but I don't know how to change my password back. What should I do?
Started by Andrew on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
To change the root password to newpassword :
mysqladmin -u root -p'oldpassword' password 'newpassword'
To change it so root doesn't require a password:
mysqladmin -u root -p'oldpassword' password be wrong about....
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How do I change a user's password in Oracle?
Started by Josh Kodroff on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Its nice....
Sentence to set a password without knowing the real one:
alter user <user> identified by values '<encrypted password>';
You can get the encryped values for passwords on PASSWORD column on the table DBA_USERS .
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How can i let users change their passwords on windows 2003 and 2008 file servers through the network?
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
If your users aren't on the domain, then I believe you may just need to allow users to RDP to the servers in question and then change their password that way option is to set the expiration....
Delete and then click "change password".
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Macs work well in Windows corporate environments, but a lot of companies require you to change your password after a period of time (3 months for example).
How do you change your Windows domain password without having to boot a PC?
Started by Harvey on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
If the password change fails because your new option) -h print....
I must admit the failure messages were quite cryptic and utterly useless .
password change interface made this possible and it worked for several hundred users.
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