Change an email password?

I can't find this on the 'Net. How would I change an email password in *nix through the command line? I can log in as root...

Thanks!

[sstanton]

As root, try: passwd user (where user is the username) it should prompt for password

[waynehoskins]

passwd does shell password, though, right, not email password?

I'd look it up for you in the Linux In A Nutshell book I have here at the office, but I can't quite figure out what I've done with it.

Would the man page have anything? Might try that.

[sstanton]

the pop or imap server should be looking in /etc/shadow for the password, which passwd modifies. Now if this is cPanel server (which this server is running) you are trying to change the email password for, if it's not a site user, rather an email address which requires the full for username, you have to use cPanel to change it... cPanel has a addpop command but no change pass command, those passwords are encrypted in the /home/SITEUSER/etc/DOMAIN.TLD/shadow file

A user does not have to have shell login for it's username to be modified by passwd, the /etc/passwd file and would have something like /sbin/nologin for the shell setting for that user

Well, for a while cPanel wouldn't let me in to my domain's control panels, so that's why I was trying to do it through the command line. When the server management company upgraded everything the problem went away and I changed it through cPanel. Yuk!