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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#passwords"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="user-goodpassword"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="user-admin-explain"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-28" status="final"/>
    <revision version="gnome:42" status="final" date="2022-04-02"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
      <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

    <license xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">
  <p>This work is licensed under a <link href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">Creative
  Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License</link>.</p>
</license>

    <desc>Keep your account secure by changing your password often in your
    account settings.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Change your password</title>

  <p>It is a good idea to change your password from time to time, especially if
  you think someone else knows your password.</p>

  <p>You need <link xref="user-admin-explain">administrator privileges</link>
  to edit user accounts other than your own.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> overview and
      start typing <gui>System</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select <guiseq><gui>Settings</gui><gui>System</gui></guiseq> from the
      results. This will open the <gui>System</gui> panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Select <gui>Users</gui> to open the panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click the label <gui>·····</gui> next to <gui>Password</gui>. If you
      are changing the password for a different user, you will first need to
      <gui>Unlock</gui> the panel and select the account under
      <gui>Other Users</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Enter your current password, then a new password. Enter your new
      password again in the <gui>Verify New Password</gui> field.</p>
      <p>You can press the <gui style="button"><media its:translate="no" type="image" src="figures/system-run-symbolic.svg" width="16" height="16">
      <span its:translate="yes">generate password</span></media></gui> icon to
      automatically generate a random password.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click <gui>Change</gui>.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <p>Make sure you <link xref="user-goodpassword">choose a good
  password</link>. This will help to keep your user account safe.</p>

  <note>
    <p>When you update your login password, your login keyring password will
    automatically be updated to be the same as your new login password.</p>
  </note>

  <p>If you forget your password, any user with administrator privileges can
  change it for you.</p>

</page>
