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I am using Windows FTP client to connect to my Linux box. But I dont see any command to change the FTP user password. how can I do this?

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Which FTP daemon are you using? – phuzion Jul 29 '09 at 13:08
More details please - what is the FTP server, are you trying to change the password from inside the ftp client? if so which client? etc.. – Petriborg Jul 29 '09 at 14:49
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You cannot change FTP user password, using FTP client, just like you cannot change your e-mail password using Outlook / Thunderbird.

You have to log in to linux server to do that. Most common setup is to use standart unix user accounts for FTP. For SQL / LDAP based auth schemas, please refer to manual.

You can try login with SSH (For windows enviroment ( recommend Putty http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/). When logged in, just type passwd (enter) into command promt, then enter your current password, then new one.

Another way is to login into server using root user / user with sudo privileges and type (sudo) passwd [username], and change password then.

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If you are using a ftp command line client, try this:

passwd your_username

It should ask for your current password and then ask you to retype the new one twice.

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I am using the windows FTP.. Dont know how to explain it more. I start it by going to command prompt and running ftp. I tried this command but it says invalid command. – Shoban Jul 29 '09 at 18:37
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You cannot issue the passwd command while connected via FTP command line, it will fail (Unix). – user95580 Sep 22 '11 at 17:44
No, it won't. As the other answers in this very old question already noted, you have to telnet/ssh to the linux machine and run the passwd command at the command line on the server ( there is no ftp passwd command ); if you do that, it does not know or care whether you also have an active ftp session. – psusi Sep 22 '11 at 18:56
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