How To Install passwd on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install passwd on Ubuntu 20.04. passwd is change and administer password and group data change and administer password and group data change and administer password and group data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install passwd on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `passwd`

passwd is:

This package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to maintain password and group data.

Shadow passwords are supported. See /usr/share/doc/passwd/README.Debian Task: minimal

Package: passwd Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: admin Installed-Size: 2667 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: foreign Source: shadow Version: 1:4.8.1-1ubuntu5.20.04 Replaces: manpages-tr (« 1.0.5), manpages-zh (« 1.5.1-1) Depends: libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 2.1.9), libsemanage1 (>= 2.0.3), libpam-modules Conffiles: /etc/default/useradd 559e87e86a6d1cb4b7f60a6f691d5150 /etc/pam.d/chfn 4d466e00a348ba426130664d795e8afa /etc/pam.d/chpasswd 9900720564cb4ee98b7da29e2d183cb2 /etc/pam.d/chsh a6e9b589e90009334ffd030d819290a6 /etc/pam.d/newusers 1454e29bfa9f2a10836563e76936cea5 /etc/pam.d/passwd eaf2ad85b5ccd06cceb19a3e75f40c63 Description-en: change and administer password and group data This package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to maintain password and group data.

Shadow passwords are supported. See /usr/share/doc/passwd/README.Debian Homepage: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow Original-Maintainer: Shadow package maintainers [email protected]

Package: passwd Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:4.8.1-1ubuntu5 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: required Section: admin Source: shadow Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Shadow package maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2667 Depends: libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 2.1.9), libsemanage1 (>= 2.0.3), libpam-modules Replaces: manpages-tr (« 1.0.5), manpages-zh (« 1.5.1-1) Filename: pool/main/s/shadow/passwd_4.8.1-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb Size: 797964 MD5sum: 06c275670fe2897006a090d7dbeef71b SHA1: e2ac7921db80d21c4d13ddea20e302c657ae571b SHA256: c8f18e55f7a79172f81437c6e7b23e630ed12d97c7a927ed8047727362095eb3 Homepage: https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow Description-en: change and administer password and group data This package includes passwd, chsh, chfn, and many other programs to maintain password and group data.

Shadow passwords are supported. See /usr/share/doc/passwd/README.Debian Task: minimal

There are three methods to install passwd on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install passwd Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install passwd using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install passwd

Install passwd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install passwd using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install passwd

Install passwd Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install passwd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install passwd

How To Uninstall passwd on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the passwd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove passwd

Uninstall passwd And Its Dependencies

To uninstall passwd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove passwd

Remove passwd Configurations and Data

To remove passwd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge passwd

Remove passwd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove passwd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge passwd

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install passwd package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.