5.5. Changing your user password or resetting another user’s password in IdM CLI

Prerequisites

• You have obtained a ticket-granting ticket (TGT) for an IdM user.
• If you are resetting another user’s password, you must have obtained a TGT for an administrative user in IdM.

Procedure

• Enter the ipa user-mod command with the name of the user and the --password option. The command will prompt you for the new password.

  $ ipa user-mod idm_user --password
  Password:
  Enter Password again to verify:
  --------------------
  Modified user "idm_user"
  --------------------
  ...

  Note that you can also use the ipa passwd idm_user command instead of ipa user-mod.