{"id":52,"date":"2015-06-21T19:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T19:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2023-10-13T18:58:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T02:58:34","slug":"how-to-change-your-password","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/faq\/how-to-change-your-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Change Your Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20pt; color: #000080;\">How To Change Your Password<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This applies to all host related functions such as e-mail authentication, ftp, or logging into your shell account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have recently upgraded to an authentication structure that is 100% Linux based, the old SunOS 4.1.4 machines are gone.\u00a0 This change means that you can now change your password and shell from any of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/services\/shells\/servers\/\">our public Linux shell servers<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To do this ssh to any of our public access shell servers and login with your existing login and password.\u00a0 If you are using Linux or MacOS, use ssh from within a terminal window.\u00a0 If you are using Windows 10 or 11, if not already enabled then you will need to enable the Windows open-ssh-client service.\u00a0 You can do this from the Programs and Accessories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Once logged in, type &#8216;passwd&#8217; followed by return or enter.\u00a0 It will prompt you once for your old password, then again for your new password twice.\u00a0\u00a0 Passwords can be up to 16 characters in length.\u00a0 We recommend a minimum of eight characters with at least one upper case alphabetic character, one lower case alphabetic character, one numeric character, and one special character (punctuation).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To exit the shell, type &#8216;exit&#8217; and hit return or type control-D.\u00a0 If you have a normal login shell such as bash, ksh, sh, or csh, this will exit the server entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How To Change Your Password \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This applies to all host related functions such as e-mail authentication, ftp, or logging into your shell account. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have recently upgraded to an authentication structure that is 100% Linux based, the old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/faq\/how-to-change-your-password\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"showcase.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/1093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}