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How To Change Password & Sudo Command Kali Linux

How To Change Password & Sudo Command Kali Linux

 


1) Sudo passwd 'your-username'

2) Type new password

3) Confirm new password 

4) Hit enter key

 

Sudo Command

Because Kali creates a user with administrative privileges by default, users can use sudo right away and supply their password for authentication The previous command installs a package that will allow for a user to be added to a trusted group that will not need to supply a password when using sudo
 
 

How to change toot password: 


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