Virtual Private Server User Guide

User and Group Management

Retype new password:

passwd: updating the database...

passwd: done

Users who attempt to change the password for another user via the passwd 

command receive the following error message:

passwd: Permission denied

Example 2: using vpasswd to change the account password for another 

user.

Members of the sysadmin group can change their own password or the password 

of another user by issuing the vpasswd command as shown below, where 

someuser can be any user on the VPS server:

> vpasswd someuser

Changing local password for someuser.

New password:

Retype new password:

vpasswd: updating the database...

vpasswd: done

Note that the vpasswd command does not prompt you for the old (current) 

password. Users who attempt to issue the vpasswd command but are not 

members of the sysadmin group receive the following error:

super: vpasswd   Permission denied to user 

username

Removing Users

Note: For security reasons, vrmuser cannot be used to remove the 

Superuser account or the account for the administrative user. 

You can remove a user account from your VPS server at any time by using the 

vrmuser command from the command prompt. As an example, the following 

dialog shows the removal of the user account for "deleteme":

> vrmuser

Please select a user name: 

deleteme

Technical Training Department

August 2004

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