chcurrentuser

Use the chcurrentuser command to change the attributes of the current user.

Syntax

Read syntax diagramSkip visual syntax diagram chcurrentuser -password'cleartext_password'-nopassword-keyfilesshkey_filename-nokey

Parameters

-password 'cleartext_password'
(Optional) Specifies the new password to be associated with the current user. The password cannot start or end with a blank. It must consist of a string of 6 - 64 printable ASCII characters. You can optionally specify the password with the -password parameter. You must enclose the password in single quotation marks. If you do not specify the password, the system prompts you for it before running the command and does not display the password that you type. Do not enclose the password in single quotation marks if you use the prompt. Either the -password parameter or the -nopassword parameter can be set.
-nopassword
(Optional) Specifies that the user's password is to be deleted.
-keyfile sshkey_filename
(Optional) Specifies the name of the file that contains the Secure Shell (SSH) public key. Either the keyfile parameter or the nokey parameter can be set.
-nokey
(Optional) Specifies that the user's SSH key is to be deleted.

Description

Use the chcurrentuser command to modify the attributes of the current user.

An invocation example

chcurrentuser -password 'secret' -nokey

The resulting output:

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