Passwd (Command)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. passwd is a tool on most Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to change a user''s password. The password entered by the user is run through a key derivation function to create a hashed version of the new password, which is saved. Only the hashed version is stored; the entered password is not saved for security reasons.When the user logs on, the password entered by the user during the log on process is run through the same key derivation function and the resulting hashed version is compared with the saved version. If the hashes are identical, the entered password are considered to be identical, and so the user is authenticated.