On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Alberto Agueda wrote:

> I found that this mailing list is a little too advanced for me, I am new in NetBSD and Unix in general and wander if someone out there could answer me this question:
> 
> How do I set the password of a new user login with root?

if you are logged in as root and want to change the password for 'joe' do

  passwd joe

then later on the user 'joe' can change his password with just
  
  passwd


-Dan