10-19-2011
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Well this is more to do with your admin security policy you know, unless you ask your admin to initialize again your account, you as simple user cannot do much...
Not really, I have changed it couple of times before with a command called 'passwd'.
How often can I change my password. Do I have any certain time limit for changing the pwd?
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shares-admin(1) General Commands Manual shares-admin(1)
NAME
shares-admin - Shared Folders Administration Tool
SYNOPSIS
shares-admin [OPTION...]
DESCRIPTION
shares-admin is part of the GNOME system tools, a set of tools to easily access and manage system configuration.
shares-admin allows you to share folders to other computers in your network or in the internet.
OPTIONS
shares-admin accepts the standard GNOME and GTK options.
AUTHORS
shares-admin was written by Carlos Garnacho Parro <garnacho@tuxerver.net> and others.
This manual page was written by Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
SEE ALSO
services-admin(1), network-admin(1), time-admin(1), users-admin(1), gtk-options(7), gnome-options(7)
The online documentation available through the program's Help menu.
GNOME
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