Thanks is indeed a good point. Some times one tend to forget that the man
pages are there for a reason. Many thanks. All the best for you and all the
forum.
Whenever some command fails to perform, read its manual page. E.g.man passwd
My completely fault I didn't mention the user which was what I wanted and
used to do.
The fault is mine. Many thanks onpon4!
Answer to your question: why are you trying to do it from the command-line?
It's easy to answer that: I use very often the command line, it's more
practical, is more
That command sets a password for root, not for your user account. If you want
to change the password as a user other than root, you need to specify the
username. In your case, "passwd brutal08". Or you could just do it from the
System Settings menu; why are you trying to do it from the
