Changing Your Password on Linux

Using Windows

You will need some kind of a terminal application in order to connect to the remote Linux computer. You will be connecting using the SSH protocol. There are many Windows SSH clients you can use. Here are some popular ones:

• Windows Terminal—Install this app from the Windows Store
• PuTTY—Download and install this app
• Windows 10 Command Prompt—Instructions for enabling and using this Windows feature

Using Mac OS

Mac OS has a built in terminal application which you can use to make an SSH connection to citstudent. It is called simply Terminal and you launch it like any other application.

Connecting to citstudent

The command for connecting to a remote computer using the SSH protocol is:

ssh username@citstudent.lanecc.edu

where username is your user name.

Changing Your Password

Regardless of which one of these SSH clients you use, you will enter the same commands. Here are instructions that list the commands you need to use to change a password: Changing Passwords.