How to change password on Centos 7 operating system

CentOS is a Linux distribution based on and compatible with Red Hat's commercial Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you know your account's current password but are tasked with changing it, you can do so fairly quickly with just a few simple steps.

Use the command to change the password:

# passwd

After successfully entering the command, you should see the following dialog box:

Changing password for user root.

New UNIX password:

Now enter our new password for the user on the Centos 7 operating system:

Retype new UNIX password:

Confirm the new password:

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

That's it. Now you know how to change password on Centos 7 operating system. As you can see, there is nothing complicated about it.