On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 08:06:23PM -, Beartooth wrote:
...
>
> # passwd xxx
> Changing password for user xxx.
> New password:
> BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - it is based on a
> dictionary word
> Retype new password:
>
> [at this point I gave it her password
That was a miss-send. Please ignore.
On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 21:52 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 18:23 +, Beartooth wrote:
> > I had set my wife an account on one of my computers recently,
> > a
> > Thinkpad E-series using MATE User Manager under F31. I suppose
On Mon, 2020-02-24 at 18:23 +, Beartooth wrote:
> I had set my wife an account on one of my computers recently,
> a
> Thinkpad E-series using MATE User Manager under F31. I suppose I may
> have
> failed to set her password, though I doubt that intensely.
>
>This is a machine th
On 02/24/2020 01:06 PM, Beartooth wrote:
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:49:25 -0500, Tim Evans wrote:
On 2/24/20 2:40 PM, Beartooth wrote:
Well, I tried it:
# passwd $ Changing password for user root.
Did you enter the literal "$"? That would've indicated an empty
variable, so would hav
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:49:25 -0500, Tim Evans wrote:
> On 2/24/20 2:40 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>
>> Well, I tried it:
>>
>> # passwd $ Changing password for user root.
>
> Did you enter the literal "$"? That would've indicated an empty
> variable, so would have been the same as entering "
On 2/24/20 2:40 PM, Beartooth wrote:
Well, I tried it:
# passwd $
Changing password for user root.
Did you enter the literal "$"? That would've indicated an empty
variable, so would have been the same as entering "passwd blank". Which
would have indicated you wanted to change r
On Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:40:01 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/24/2020 11:23 AM, Beartooth wrote:
>> useradd -h as root got me nothing that seemed to enable even root
>> to edit a user's data. (I tried -p and -u.) Can I do it??
>
> Try this: first, use su - to become root. Then, as root:
>
>
On 02/24/2020 11:23 AM, Beartooth wrote:
useradd -h as root got me nothing that seemed to enable even root
to edit a user's data. (I tried -p and -u.) Can I do it??
Try this: first, use su - to become root. Then, as root:
passwd $USERNAME
This will (or at least should) allow you to c
