Rotate Your Linux Account Password

SY0-701 · 4.6SY0-701 · 2.5

You are lparra, a junior analyst at Cinderpeak Robotics. During a cleanup, facilities found a sticky note with your workstation password on it. Following the team's incident runbook, you rotate the credential from the terminal before you leave the console.

In the terminal, run passwd to change your own password. Your current password is c0pper-Finch.84. Choose a new password that is at least 12 characters and mixes upper- and lower-case letters, a digit, and a symbol — for example m@ple-Ridge.512 — then retype it to confirm. Heads up: while you type a password, nothing appears and the cursor does not move. That is normal — keep typing and press Enter.
lparra@cinderpeak: ~

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