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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
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Les Pounder

How To Manage User Passwords in Linux

Password, written on top of a Linux directory listing.

Passwords are one of the most important aspects of computing. They keep our bank accounts, user profiles and computers safe (as long as we don’t reuse passwords). Just to log into our computers, most of us need a password and, for Linux, this is even more important.

Managing passwords via the terminal is relatively simple. Users can change their own passwords and users belonging to the sudo (super user) account can administrate the passwords of other users.

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