Re: New User Help Reuired

[Alvin Smith <email alvinsmith com>]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 17:14, Mark Brown wrote:
> Have installed RH9 to have a play with and generally get to grip with
> the desktop. Anyway have come to the machine tonight and tried to log
> on and the system tells me that my login has expired despite the fact
> the operating system has only been on the machine for a week. 
> How do I resetup my login.
>  
> Regards
>  
> Mark

Mark, here is information regarding the use of command line tools for
setting up user accounts and setting passwords.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/admin-primer/s1-acctsgrps-proc.html

As "root" /usr/sbin/usermod <new password> -p <username>.

Alvin