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Re: About user and password on Debian 10

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On Thu 30 Sep 2021 at 19:25:09 (+0200), frantal@libero.it wrote:
> Try (as root, at CLI) "passwd <username>"
> 
> 
> I did. It permits to fill only the old password and then it says your password is changed. But when I reboot I have the same as I told

You're misunderstanding something. As root, you don't need to know the
old password to set a new password:

# passwd flash
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
# 

# passwd 
New password: 
Retype new password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
# 

The passwd man page does have a caveat:  "Users may not be able to
change their password on a system if NIS is enabled and they are
not logged into the NIS server."

BTW /etc/passwd no longer contains any passwords as it's world-readable.

Cheers,
David.

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