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<link type="guide" xref="user-accounts#passwords"/>
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<link type="seealso" xref="user-goodpassword"/>
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<desc>Keep your account secure by changing your password often
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in your account settings.</desc>
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<revision pkgversion="3.0" date="2011-03-25" status="final"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.0" version="3.0.1" date="2011-04-06" status="outdated"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.0" version="3.0.1" date="2011-04-15" status="incomplete"/>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Dokumentationsprojekt för GNOME</name>
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<email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>
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<title>Change your password</title>
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<cite date="2011-04-15">shaunm</cite>
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<p>We need a note in here about password hints. Share content
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<p>Turns out that you get a dialog to change the keyring password when
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you log in after changing your password. Mention that in a blurb above
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the steps above #changepass below. "When you next log in, you will be
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asked to.... If you prefer to change the keyring password immediately,
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<cite date="2011-04-15">shaunm</cite>
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<p>We need pages on the keyring. Link to them from the section
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below on changing your keyring password. This page can still go
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final for 3.0.x without that, but leave this comment in for 3.2.</p>
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<p>It is a good idea to change your password from time to time, especially if you think someone else knows what your password is.</p>
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<item><p>Click your name on the top bar and select <gui>My Account</gui>.</p></item>
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<item><p>Click the button label next to <gui>Password</gui>. It should look
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like a series of dots or boxes if you already have a password set.</p></item>
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Fill in your <gui>Current password</gui>, a <gui>New password</gui>, and <gui>Confirmation password</gui> (which needs to be exactly the same as the <gui>New password</gui>).
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Click <gui>Change</gui>.
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<item><p>Enter your current password, then a new password. Enter your new
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password again in the <gui>Confirm password</gui> field.</p>
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<p>You can also click the button next to the
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<gui>New password</gui> field to select a randomly generated secure password. These
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passwords are hard for others to guess, but they can be hard to remember, so
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be careful.</p></item>
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<item><p>Click <gui>Change</gui>.</p></item>
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<p>Make sure you <link xref="user-goodpassword">choose a good password</link>. This will help to keep your user account safe.</p>