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How to change the password of a (vsftpd) FTP account when 'passwd' isnt working

Kinda newbie here, I have a server which uses vsftpd. I changed the password of user 'aa' from the root account with 'passwd aa', which changed the SSH password for user 'aa', but not for his FTP ...
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How to tell passwd to use salted passwords?

I am hunting the web on how to change passwords of an existing user using a salted hash. I found that way with adding a non-existing user: ...
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Restore passwd for root on a server

      I have a DVR server with linux embeded. It has some telnet functions but i don't have the password for it (the chinese manufacturer refuses to give me the ...
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I would like to allow login to a box with no password for a particular user how do I do that?

I would like a userid to allow logging into a box without a password. I am not sure how to accomplish this as changing the password to nothing is not allowed. Thanks
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Changing pam.d/system_auth?

I'm trying to change pam.d/system_auth to help with password complexity as required by an audit. I'm not familiar with PAM, but the system_auth file says This file is auto generated User ...