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Using the 900 Series HP 3000: Fundamental Skills Module 4: The Account Structure

Lesson 5 Changing User Passwords 

Lesson 5 presents the PASSWORD command:

   *   changing your user password

Your user password 
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The very first time that you tried to log on to you MPE/iX computer, you
probably had to enter your user password in order to log on successfully.

That user password already existed, because your system manager or your
account manager assigned that password to your user name.  It might be a
password that you have trouble remembering, or you might simply like to
have a different user password.

You can change your user password if you want to do that--but do not do
it so frequently that you have trouble remembering your user password.

If you do not have a user password, you can create one for yourself.

Using the PASSWORD command 

In order to change an existing user password, you must know what that
password is.

If you are logged on in your account and your group, you would use the
PASSWORD command in this fashion:

      PASSWORDReturn 

If a password already exists, the computer will ask you to enter the
existing password, to prove that you know what it is:

     ENTER OLD USER PASSWORD:

Enter the correct password and press Return.  The word that you enter
will not appear on your screen.  That is to protect you from having
anyone see the password that you enter.

If you have entered the existing password correctly, PASSWORD next asks
you to enter the new password--the password that you want to have
attached to your user name:

     ENTER NEW USER PASSWORD:

Enter the password that you want.  The password must begin with a letter
of the alphabet.  After that first letter, you may add as many as seven
more characters--letters or numbers or a combination of letters and
numbers.

Again, you will not see the password you enter.  Enter it carefully.

Now the computer asks you enter the new password one more time:

     ENTER NEW USER PASSWORD AGAIN:

This step is to ensure that you and the computer agree on what the new
password is to be.  You will not see the password that you enter.

If the password you enter this time matches the password you entered in
the previous step, the computer changes your user password and confirms
the change:

     PASSWORD WAS CHANGED SUCCESSFULLY

The change does not become effected until you log off and log back on
again.

If the password you enter this second time is different from the password
you entered in the step before this, the computer assumes that you made a
mistake, stops the password changing process, and gives you a message:
________________________________________________________________________
|                                                                      |
|                                                                      |
| NEW PASSWORD IS NOT CONSISTENT. (CIERR 2503) PASSWORD WAS NOT        |
| CHANGED.                                                             |
| :_                                                                   |
|                                                                      |
________________________________________________________________________

            

In this case, the old, existing user password--whatever it was--remains
the same.  If you still want to change your user password, you must use
the PASSWORD again.

If your user name does not have a password, and you would like to create
one, use the PASSWORD command.

If there is no existing password for your user name, the computer begins
by asking you to enter a (new) password.  Then you will be asked to enter
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