[PLUG] Changing password

[Robert Citek]

Try changing it using sudo:

$ sudo passwd ${USER}

Regards,
- Robert

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:26 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:
> On February 17 at the Clinic I needed to change my password on my
> laptop. I simply appended '1' to the password, and that worked then and
> continues to work fine.
>
> However, I now wish to change my password back to the original. I need
> to do this because 1) I keep forgetting to add the '1' and 2) I have
> developed a problem with LibreOffice not removing lock files and
> refusing to open documents, and I wish to eliminate any issue with the
> password.
>
> >From the command line I tried passwd, but it refused because it said
> the new password was too similar to the old one. OK, passwd program, I
> don't disagree, but just do it, and I mean it, 'k?
>
> So then I tried changing my password to xyz intending to change xyz to
> my old password, but passwd bitched that this was too short. So I
> tried changing it to abcdefg, but this resulted in:
>
>         passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
>         passwd: password unchanged
>
> So then I tried 'passwd <myusername> and then I got to abcdefg but the
> error message changed to 'new and old passwords are too similar.' My
> current password contains none of the letters abcdefg. WTH?
>
> Why was I able to change my password on February 17 by just appending
> 1, and now every change seems to be 'too similar'?
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