Virtual Private Server User Guide
User and Group Management
In addition to listing normal users, you can list all users (including system users)
by adding the a option to the vlistuser command, as follows:
> vlistuser a
Username Full Name
FTP Shell Samba System
root
Superuser
YES YES
NO
NO
toor
Bourne again Superuser NO
NO
NO
YES
daemon
Owner of many system pr NO
NO
NO
YES
operator System &
NO
NO
NO
YES
bin
Binaries Commands and S NO
NO
NO
YES
tty
Tty Sandbox
NO
NO
NO
YES
kmem
KMem Sandbox
NO
NO
NO
YES
games
Games pseudo user
NO
NO
NO
YES
news
News Subsystem
NO
NO
NO
YES
man
Mister Man Pages
NO
NO
NO
YES
bind
Bind Sandbox
NO
NO
NO
YES
uucp
UUCP pseudo user
NO
NO
NO
YES
xten
X 10 daemon
NO
NO
NO
YES
pop
Post Office Owner
NO
NO
NO
YES
nobody
Unprivileged user
NO
NO
NO
YES
admin
admin
YES
YES
YES
NO
ftp
Anonymous FTP user
NO
NO
NO
YES
mysql
MySQL Daemon
NO
NO
NO
YES
joe
Joe User
YES
NO
NO
NO
malone
The Mailman
NO
NO
NO
NO
rusty
Trusty Rusty
YES
YES
YES
NO
Changing User Passwords
The passwd command allows a user to change his or her individual password.
The vpasswd command is a super command that allows any user in the
sysadmin group to change the password of another user, even if the user's
current password is unknown. vpasswd cannot be used to change the password
for the administrative user or the Superuser.
When changing an account password, the password is changed for the user's e
mail, FTP, Samba, and shell access, if applicable.
Example 1: using passwd to change your own account password
A user can change the password for his or her individual account by using the
passwd command as shown below:
> passwd
Changing local password for user.
Old password:
New password:
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