user name password change

[Chris Norman]

type:
passwd userwhere user is the name of the user.

HTH,

Chris Norman
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned Granic" <ngranic at cox.net>
To: <covici at ccs.covici.com>; "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: user name password change


> Yes, I knew about that, but a little question is how?
> That's exactly the way I messed up the thing.
> I am loged in as root.
> Now, I want to change the password (that I forgot) for the user created
> during the instalation.
> How do I do that?
>
> Many thanks again!
> Ned
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John covici" <covici at ccs.covici.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:03 PM
> Subject: Re: user name password change
>
>
>> You can change the password once you log in as root using the passwd
>> command.  Set the password and try again.
>>
>> on Sunday 09/17/2006 Ned Granic(ngranic at cox.net) wrote
>> > Where am I loging from?
>> > The shell -- I thinks.
>> > on startup I loged in as root (and messed up the password), then exited
>> > (the
>> > exit command), then tried to log in again as user by using the user 
>> > name
>> > I
>> > created during the installation process.
>> >
>> > I tried to use the base-config command to reset the user name and
>> > passwords,
>> > and it just kicks me back to the config window from which I could only
>> > choose the "finished configuration" option.
>> >
>> > One more question; is w3m browser accessible with speakup at all? At
>> > least
>> > in my class I couldn't open one single link.
>> >
>> > It's Debian 2.6.17 box.
>> >
>> > Many thanks in advance!
>> > Ned
>> > ----- Original Message ----- 
>> > From: "John covici" <covici at ccs.covici.com>
>> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
>> > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> > Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 3:42 PM
>> > Subject: user name password change
>> >
>> >
>> > > Can you give exact steps to duplicate the problem? Logging in from
>> > > where?  .bash_profile contents?
>> > >
>> > > on Sunday 09/17/2006 Ned Granic(ngranic at cox.net) wrote
>> > > > Hi all,
>> > > >
>> > > > I plaied with the passwd command with the -e option while being
>> > > > loged in
>> > > > as root and therefore messed up my forgotten password for my user
>> > > > name -- the one I picked while installing the debian.
>> > > > Now when I log in with my user name (not as root) and password, it
>> > > > kicks
>> > > > me out by saying my user name is not a command.
>> > > >
>> > > > How do I fix the problem?
>> > > >
>> > > > Many thanks in advance!
>> > > > Ned
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>> > > is:
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>> > > you spend it?
>> > >
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>> How do
>> you spend it?
>>
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