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A colleague has just resigned. And his account is being used as a build account on our Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS.

Is there any way to reset his password without knowing his current password? I have tried sudo passwd $HIS_USER but it asks for current his current password (not mine).

And

  • The Ubuntu is using LDAP authentication
  • I can't reboot the server into GRUB because I'm working remotely
Tuan
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login as root or type sudo su. Then you can set a new password for user with passwd [user].

Furthermore you could copy any other encrypted password from /etc/shadow to this user.

Thomas Aichinger
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