On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 06:06:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 01 December 2016 15:30:12 emetib wrote: [use sudo] > The last time I tried that, some years ago, it demanded the old passwd > first. I think that was about Red Hat 7.1's day. I'd been using it since > 1998 and 5.0. > > > i hope that this helps some for future reference. > If no pw is needed, great. `passwd` invoked as the root user does not require you to provide the current password. You can set the password for any user, including the default user of root. So you would need to invoke 'sudo passwd' to change/set the root password without being prompted for the existing one.
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