Ubuntu – Change the user password using Shell script

Would you like to learn how to change the user password using a Shell script on Ubuntu Linux? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to create a user account and change its password using a shell script on Ubuntu Linux.

• Ubuntu 18.04
• Ubuntu 19.10
• Ubuntu 20.04

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Tutorial Ubuntu – Change the user password using Shell script

Create a new user account.

Set the password to the user account.

Try to login using the new credential.

You can automate this process using a shell script.

Create a shell script.

Here is the file content.

Set the correct file permission.

Test the Shell script.

Try to login using the new credential.

Here is an improved version of the same script.

Test the Shell script.

In our example, we created a user account named Yamcha and set the password 123qwe.