Redhat 6.1 Password Change

[Aaron Rykhus]

When I run passwd it says "Enter UNIX password"


>From: Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux 
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>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 Password Change
>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:39:17 -0500
>
>On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 08:30:27PM +0000, Aaron Rykhus wrote:
> > I'm new to Linux so don't laugh if this sounds retarded...I installed
> > RedHat 6.1 recently and have and can login to root and created my own 
>user
> > account that I can login to...I'm currently reading the RHCE book and it
> > had me create an account with the passwd command.
>
>Umm, you don't create an account with "passwd".  You use "useradd" or
>some GUI tool.  "passwd" sets or changes a password for an existing
>account.
>
> > However, when I tried
> > testing logging into the account it doesn't work (login failed). I 
>checked
> > caps lock and changed it again a couple of times but still no luck. Any
> > thoughts???
>
>You're using a very ancient version of RedHat.  I seem to recall some
>problem with password but don't recall the exact nature of it.  I have
>seen passwd carp about your choice of password but go ahead and set it
>anyway.  Are you getting any odd messages when you run passwd?
>
>I presume you are root when you run passwd to change the user's
>password.
>
>Cheers,
>--
>Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
>robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
>Prayer should be our first resource, not our last resort.
>
>
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