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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,06:07 QUOTE
for some reason I can not log in to my dsl account I have to log into root

can I reset the dsl user account password?
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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,06:16 QUOTE
or is there a way to add all my downloads from mudsl on my dsl account to root?
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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,06:32 QUOTE
su dsl
passwd

<enter your new password for dsl>
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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,06:45 QUOTE
it says this applet requires root priviledgs
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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,13:37 QUOTE
ur not far off doing to, but

passwd can only be run as 'root'

so stay logged in as root and type

passwd <username of password to change>

ie

passwd dsl

and that'll change the password of user dsl
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