Linux User Password Management

An important part of linux User Password Management is user password management. A user account has no password when it was created, but is locked by the system and cannot be used. It can only be used after a password is specified, even if it is null. The Shell command used to specify and modify the user password is passwd. Super Users can specify passwords for themselves and other users. Common users can only use them to modify their own passwords. The command format is: Code: www.2cto.com passwd option options available for the user name: Code:-l lock password, that is, disable the account. -U password unlock. -D indicates that the account has no password. -F forces the user to change the password upon next login. If the default user name is used, modify the password of the current user. For example, if the current user is sam, the following command modifies the user's password: www.2cto.com code: $ passwd Old password: ****** New password: * ****** Re-enter new password: ******* if you are a super user, you can specify the password of any user in the following form: code: # passwd sam New password: ******* Re-enter new password: ******** www.2cto.com, the passwd command will first ask for the original password, and then ask the user to enter the new password twice after verification. If the two passwords are the same, specify the password to the user; when a Super User specifies a password for the user, the original password is not required. For the sake of system security, you should select a complicated password. For example, you 'd better use an 8-bit long password, which contains uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and numbers, it should be different from the name and birthday. When you specify a blank password for a user, execute the following command: Code: # passwd-d sam www.2cto.com this command deletes the password of the user sam, so that the user sam will log on to the next time, the system no longer asks for the password. The passwd command can also use the-l (lock) option to lock a user so that the user cannot log on. For example, code: # passwd-l sam