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I am superadmin of a server and like to change password of an existing user . How can I do that ?

I tried

usermod -p 'new-password' john

but it didn't worked ?

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1 Year ago

answered 1 Year ago afisird · Accepted Answer

The usermod -p flag is expecting the data to be the password already in an encrypted format.

Use openssl passwd to generate the encrypted data, or do it like this:

usermod -p `openssl passwd` (USERNAME)