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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Reset Password Post 303009091 by Scott on Friday 8th of December 2017 02:46:16 PM
Old 12-08-2017
Excuse my continued confusion, but I'm still, err, confused Smilie

How did you get in? With a different user? From the console? You had an epiphany?

The passwd command is the usual way to reset a user's password (unless I missed something, or banged my head Smilie) Who's password did you forget? You can change your own password with passwd, unless you're root, in which case you can change anyone's. If it's root's password you forgot then you need console access (which, if you are root, I presume you have). If you "are in", use passwd to change the password before you "get out".
 

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cvsd-passwd(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    cvsd-passwd(8)

NAME
cvsd-passwd - generate password entries for repositories SYNOPSIS
cvsd-passwd REPOS [+|-]NAME... DESCRIPTION
cvsd-passwd adds, updates or deletes users from repository passwd files for use with cvsd. OPTIONS
REPOS Specify the directory in which the repository is located. This argument can be the top of the repository, the CVSROOT directory or even the passwd file in the CVSROOT directory. [+]USER[:SUSER] Add or update the user to the CVSROOT/passwd file. If the user does not exist a password for the user is asked and the user is added for use with cvsd. If the user already exists a password for is asked and the password field is modified. The :SUSER part can be user to change or set mapping to a system user. If you do not specify anything, a reasonable default is used based upon your cvsd configuration. If you don't want to map the user to any specified system user you can specify an empty SUSER and use 'USER:'. -USER Remove the user from the CVSROOT/passwd file. EXAMPLES
Add an anoncvs user to access the given repository: cvsd-passwd /var/lib/cvsd/myrepos +anoncvs If the user already exists, change the password. Remove a user from the repository passwd list: cvsd-passwd /var/lib/cvsd/myrepos -foo Add a user and specify that cvs should remap this user to the joe system user: cvsd-passwd /var/lib/cvsd/myrepos joecvs:joe Note that the user joe should be known in the system passwd file and that cvsd should be run as root or user joe for this to work. SEE ALSO
cvsd(8) AUTHOR
Arthur de Jong <arthur@arthurdejong.org>. Version 1.0.24 Jun 2012 cvsd-passwd(8)
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