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Let me give you a couple of scenarios.

When you install Ubuntu, you create a user and set a password. It could be a weak password or a bit too complicated, and you want to change it.

If you are a sysadmin, you may need to change the password for other users on your system.

You may have a few other reasons for doing this.

Now the question comes, how to change the password for a user in Ubuntu or Linux?

In this quick tutorial, I’ll show you the following:

• Change user password via the command line
• Change root user password
• Change user password via GUI

Change user password in Ubuntu [Command Line]

Changing user password in Ubuntu is dead simple.

In fact, it’s the same with any Linux distribution because you use the generic Linux command called for this purpose.

If you want to change your current password, simply run this command in a terminal:

You’ll be asked to enter your current password and the new password twice.