[X-Unix] changing users Password from the CLI

Charles Howse chowse at charter.net
Mon Oct 24 14:51:14 PDT 2005


In Terminal - man passwd

> Guy's;
>      Sorry to reply to my own message, but I forgot to add that he
> can't change it from the Accounts pane of System Preferences (hence
> the need to re-set it from the CD or CLI).
> 
> Russell
> 
> On Oct 24, 2005, at 4:26 PM, Russell McGaha wrote:
> 
>> everyone;
>>     I've got a 10.3.9 user that I need to change the password for,
>> and the machine won't start from the 10.3 CD; is there a way to
>> change the password from the command line using Admin. privileges?
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