Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.debian.user > #175327

Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that

Show all headers | View raw

[Multipart message — attachments visible in raw view] - view raw

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 01 December 2016 15:30:12 emetib wrote:
[use sudo]
> The last time I tried that, some years ago, it demanded the old passwd 
> first. I think that was about Red Hat 7.1's day. I'd been using it since 
> 1998 and 5.0.
> 
> > i hope that this helps some for future reference.
> If no pw is needed, great.

`passwd` invoked as the root user does not require you to provide the current
password. You can set the password for any user, including the default user of
root. So you would need to invoke 'sudo passwd' to change/set the root password
without being prompted for the existing one.

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-12-01 18:50 +0100
  Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated,  please stop that Alexandre GRIVEAUX <agriveaux@deutnet.info> - 2016-12-01 19:20 +0100
    Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-12-01 20:20 +0100
      Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already  allocated, please stop that Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-12-01 20:50 +0100
  Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated,  please stop that emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 22:00 +0100
    Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-12-02 00:10 +0100
      Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated,  please stop that Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-12-02 12:20 +0100
        Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-12-02 13:40 +0100
          Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated,  please stop that emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-12-02 20:20 +0100
  Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated,  please stop that Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-12-02 12:20 +0100
    Re: arm people distributing images with user 1000 already allocated, please stop that Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-12-02 13:30 +0100

csiph-web