passwd

PURPOSE

     Changes your login password.

SYNOPSIS
     passwd name


DESCRIPTION

     The passwd  command establishes  or changes  the password
     associated  with your  login user  name.  When  you enter
     this command,  you get a  prompt for the old  password if
     one exists.  Then you get  two successive prompts for the
     new password.  You must enter the same password twice for
     it to take effect.

     Passwords can be from four to eight characters.  Only the
     owner of the password or the superuser can change it.  To
     change a password, the owner  must know the old password.
     Only a user operating with superuser authority can create
     a null password (by removing  the password entry from the
     /etc/passwd file).

     The system password file does not change when a new pass-
     word is  the same as the  old one, nor does  it change if
     the password has not aged sufficiently.

     Note:  The /etc/passwd and  /etc/opasswd files must be on
     the same node.

FILES

     /etc/passwd   Password file; contains user ids.
     /etc/opasswd  Previous version of the password file.

RELATED INFORMATION

     The following commands:  "login" and "users, adduser."

     The crypt and getpwent subroutines and the passwd file in
     AIX Operating System Technical Reference.