{"id":272,"date":"2017-04-27T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T18:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/?page_id=272"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:54:05","slug":"changing-password","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/rcdc\/changing-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Password"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Changing Password\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>It is very important to have a secure password. &nbsp;Your RCDC Virtual Machine (VM) has its own password, and is not linked to the MyCarletonOne password system. &nbsp;To change your password:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Log into your VM, following the\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/documentation\/connecting-to-the-rcdc-mac\/\">Mac Instructions<\/a>, or<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/documentation\/connecting-to-the-rcdc-windows\/\">Windows Instructions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Type <em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">passwd <\/em>followed by the enter key. \u00a0You will need to enter your old password, then you will be asked for your new password twice to confirm. For security, nothing is displayed on the screen when you type your password. \u00a0You must\u00a0press enter between typing each password.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>$ passwd<br><br>Changing password for someuser.<br><br>(current) UNIX password:<br><br>Enter new UNIX password:<br><br>Retype new UNIX password:<br><br>passwd: password updated successfully<br><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is very important to have a secure password. &nbsp;Your RCDC Virtual Machine (VM) has its own password, and is not linked to the MyCarletonOne password system. &nbsp;To change your password: $ passwd Changing password for someuser. (current) UNIX password: Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-272","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions\/1145"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}