[PLUG] Changing password

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:58:29 -0700
alan at clueserver.org dijo:

>> Never mind. I finally succeeded. I'm still curious why passwd didn't
>> think the new password was too similar when I just appended '1.'
>> Silly program.
>
>Did you try the -f option? That should force it to change the password.

No I didn't try -f, because I didn't know about it. And I didn't know
about it because it's not in the man page. In fact I read the man page
specifically looking for just such an option, hence my frustration. If
it's a real option it would be good to know about.