Changing password in Linux servers Print

To change your own login password, use the following command:

passwd

To change passwords for other accounts in your server, use this command:

passwd otheraccountname

For both commands, you should be seeing an output like this:

Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully

Make sure not to have your password too simple, and recommended to mix in at least 1 upper case alphabet, 1 lower case alphabet, punctuation marks and special letters to lower possibilities of accounts being compromised.