Change the Password of Any Linux User from the Terminal on Linux

If you're a system administrator and you want to change the password of a user of your Linux system, follow this tutorial.

Let's say I have a user 'linda' on my system. I want to change the password of linda. I would run the following command,

sudo passwd linda

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(current) UNIX password:

Enter your current accounts password and press <Enter>. Then you will see the following prompt:

Enter new UNIX password: 

Enter the password that you want 'linda' to have and press <Enter>, Then you will see the following prompt:

Retype new UNIX password: 

Retype the new password for 'linda' and press <Enter>. You will see the following line.

passwd: password updated successfully 

Congrats! You have successfully changed the password of 'linda' from Linux terminal.