Use the chcurrentuser command to change the attributes of the current
user.
Syntax
chcurrentuser [ { -password [cleartext_password] | -nopassword } ] [ { -keyfilesshkey_filename | -nokey } ]
Parameters
- -password cleartext_password
- (Optional) Specifies the new password to be associated with the current user. The password
cannot start or end with a blank. It must consist of a string of 6 - 64 printable ASCII
characters. You can optionally specify the password with the password
parameter. If you do not specify the password, the system prompts you for it before running
the command and does not display the password that you type. Either the
password parameter or the nopassword parameter can
be set.
- -nopassword
- (Optional) Specifies that the user's password is to be deleted.
- -keyfile sshkey_filename
- (Optional) Specifies the name of the file that contains the Secure Shell (SSH) public key.
Either the keyfile parameter or the nokey parameter
can be set.
- -nokey
- (Optional) Specifies that the user's SSH key is to be deleted.
Description
Use the chcurrent
user command to modify the attributes of the current user.
An invocation
example
chcurrentuser -password secret -nokey
The resulting
output:
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