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PASSWD(1)							     PASSWD(1)

NAME
       chfn, chsh, passwd - change password database information

SYNOPSIS
       passwd [ name ]

DESCRIPTION
       This  command changes (or installs) a password associated with the user
       name (your own name by default).

       When altering a password, the program prompts for the current  password
       and  then  for  the  new	 one.	The  caller must supply both.  The new
       password must be typed twice to forestall mistakes.

       New passwords must be at least four  characters	long  if  they	use  a
       sufficiently  rich  alphabet  and  at  least  six  characters  long  if
       monocase.  These rules are relaxed if you are insistent enough.

       Only the owner of the name or the super-user may change a password; the
       owner must prove he knows the old password.

       Use yppasswd to change your password in the network yellow pages.  This
       will not affect your local password, or your  password  on  any	remote
       machines on which you have accounts.

FILES
       /etc/passwd    The file containing all of this information, non-NetInfo
       /etc/shells    The list of approved shells
       /etc/yp/passwd

SEE ALSO
       login(1), passwd(5), crypt(3), yppasswd(1), netinfo(5), lookupd(8)
       Robert Morris and Ken Thompson, UNIX password security

BUGS
       passwd  will change a local password, but not a password in the network
       Yellow Pages.  Refer to yppasswd(1) for information on how to change  a
       Yellow  Pages password.	Shell and finger information cannot be changed
       in NetInfo using this command.

4th Berkeley Distribution	October 8, 1990			     PASSWD(1)
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