How do I cnage my user password

Submitted by ipd1961 on Sun, 2008-08-31 10:19.

I have just been given a webbook with ubuntu installed and would like to know how can I change my user password from the one I entered on the initial set up. I like to change my passwords fairly regular for safety. I would appreciate any help in this matter as I am a first time user of any Linux operating system.

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Submitted by dndzz on Mon, 2008-09-01 15:16.

To manually set a password for the root user, type in the following in the shell: sudo passwd After that you are asked to type in the new root password twice. Finally, your root user has its own password.


Submitted by xben on Thu, 2008-09-11 02:16.

actually if you do  "sudo passwd"  it will change the password of the connected account in the terminal   , if you want to change another user password like root or put a password on root (non by default in Ubuntu) you type "sudo passwd root" or any other account name