---
name: "nwpasswd"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ncpfs"
version: "2.2.6-9"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nwpasswd"
---

# nwpasswd(1)

Change a user's password

## NAME

nwpasswd - Change a user's password

## SYNOPSIS

**nwpasswd** \[ **-h** \] \[ **-S** *server* \] \[ **-U** *user name* \] \[ **-O** *object name* \] \[ **-t** *object type* \]

## DESCRIPTION

With **nwpasswd,** you can change your password on a NetWare server.  **nwpasswd** asks for the old password and twice for the new password. Then it changes the password on the server.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**

  With -h nwpasswd prints a little help text.

- **-S** *server*

  is the name of the server you want to use.

**-U** *user name*

is the name of the bindery object whose password is to be changed.

**-O** *object name*

If you have supervisor privileges, you can change other users' passwords. With **-O** you can tell nwpasswd the name of the user whose password should be changed.

**-t** *object type*

is the bindery object type of the object whose password is to be changed.

## CREDITS

nwpasswd would not have been possible without the work of Guntram Blom. Look at nwcrypt.c for his work.