Try changing it using sudo: $ sudo passwd ${USER}
Regards, - Robert On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:26 AM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@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'? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug