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There are two ways to use the program: via the standalone chntpw utility installed as a package available in most modern Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu [1]) or via a bootable CD/USB image. There also was a floppy release, but its support has been dropped.
chsh (an abbreviation of "change shell") is a command on Unix-like operating systems that is used to change a login shell.Users can either supply the pathname of the shell that they wish to change to on the command line, or supply no arguments, in which case chsh allows the user to change the shell interactively.
Users can have their own individual crontab files and often there is a system-wide crontab file (usually in /etc or a subdirectory of /etc e.g. /etc/cron.d) that only system administrators can edit. [note 1] Each line of a crontab file represents a job, and looks like this:
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passwd is a command on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and most Unix-like operating systems used to change a user's password.The password entered by the user is run through a key derivation function to create a hashed version of the new password, which is saved.
sudo (/ s uː d uː / [4]) is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that enables users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. [5]
The command su, including the Unix permissions system and the setuid system call, was part of Version 1 Unix.Encrypted passwords appeared in Version 3. [5] The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.
In computing, pushd and popd are a pair of commands which allow users to quickly switch between the current and previous directory when using the command line. When called, they use a directory stack to sequentially save and retrieve directories visited by the user.