Changing Your Password with passwd

Virtually all Unix systems require passwords to help ensure that your files and data remain your own and that the system itself is secure from hackers and crackers (malicious hackers). Code Listing 1.1 shows how you change your password.

Code Listing 1.1. Change your password regularly using the passwd command.
$ passwd
Changing password for ejr
(current) Unix password:
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated
→ successfully
$

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