Users in Linux have a password assigned. You can change the password using the passwd command.
passwd
There are two situations here.
The first is when you want to change your password. In this case you type:
and an interactive prompt will ask you for the old password, then it will ask you for the new one:
When you're root (or have superuser privileges) you can set the username for which you want to change the password:
root
In this case you don't need to enter the old one.
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passwd <username> <new password>
