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Changing your password in Ubuntu

Posted at 8:30 am by brett on May 3rd, 2010

Under categories: Ubuntu and tags: , ,

It may not be immediately obvious how to change a password in Ubuntu and have been asked a couple times on how to do so, so I thought I'd share these simple instructions...

To change your password in Ubuntu, go to System > Preferences > About Me and click on "Change Password..."

This is also where you can change your display picture that is used on a multi-user login screen and when your computer becomes password protected.

EDIT: As others have pointed out, if you're using Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) - and still have the "Me Menu" on your panel - you can click your name then your avatar to pop up the same dialogue as System > Preferences > About Me. If you removed the "Me Menu" out of the panel like I did, you can re-add it by adding the "Indicator Session Applet". Why the name difference? I'm not sure.

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  • Martijn

    Or just click on your name/picture in the menu at the top right :)

  • http://jacob.peddicord.net/ Jacob Peddicord

    Even easier: click your name in the Me Menu on the panel and then hit Change Password from there. :D

  • http://brettalton.com brett

    I added a comment about the "Me Menu", thank you for the info!

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  • http://all-tech-thoughts.blogspot.com CMD

    Surely you can just do System --> Administration --> users and groups --> change

    • http://brettalton.com brett

      Alternative's are of course welcome. You could also run 'passwd' on the command-line, but I'm not going to get into that.

  • http://all-tech-thoughts.blogspot.com CMD

    ...useful if you've disabled the MeMenu

    • http://brettalton.com brett

      I only have one panel at the bottom and thus no room for the Me Menu. No need for it either.

  • Konstigt

    Watch out if you are using ecryptfs as last time I tried to change password my encrypted directory stopped working.

    • http://brettalton.com brett

      Very true. I'm setting this information up for new users, so if someone doesn't know how to change their password, I don't think they would have encrypted their home drive. But useful info, thank you.

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