Changing console/root password, Changing console/root password: 71 – ThingMagic Astra User Manual

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Appendix C: Advanced Administration

Astra User Guide

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the existing users.db file, so it retains existing user/passwords. You should use one
or the other depending on what you want to do with existing user/passwords.

Changing console/root password:

To change the root password, used by the command-line interface and console access,

use standard linux "passwd [userid]" command.

[root@astra-21071f] $ passwd
Changing password for root
Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 8 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and num-
bers.
Enter new password:
Re-enter new password:
Password changed.

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