How to change your account password:

Changing your account password is easy, and there are two ways:

1. Contact your friendly Binary Net Tech Support at support@binary.net or 402-742-7042 with your POP or User ID ready and we will be happy to make the change.
2. (For advanced users) Using a telnet, rlogin or ssh client.

• Telnet into your Binary Net shell account. Telnet clients are available for all platforms,and come with almost any UNIX operating systems, are available for Windows and Apple Macintosh computers and compatibles.
• SSH clients are highly recommended over telnet and rlogin clients for security reasons. Please see the ssh home page for more information on getting a client for your operating system. We also recommend using PuTTY
• Connect to matrix.binary.net using your favorite telnet, rlogin or ssh application.
• At the login: prompt type your Binary Net username.
• At the Password prompt type your old password.
• For POP accounts
  • You will see Changing local password for username.
  • You will be asked for your old password, for a new password, that you would like to use, and you will be asked to re-enter your new password for verification
  • Once the passwd program terminates, the session will close and you are done.
• For Shell accounts
  • You will see a screenfull of system messages, message of the day, etc., and you will be given a shell prompt, that looks like this in the default configuration: ">"
  • At this shell prompt type: passwd
  • You will be asked for your old password, for a new password, that you would like to use, and you will be asked to re-enter your new password for verification.
  • Once the passwd program terminates, it will give you more information on whether your password has been changed, or there was an error.
  • If passwd reports that your password has been changed, that means that you will need to re-enter it in any and all networking applications, that may require it. Such as e-mail readers. You can safely forget your old password, because it does not exist anymore.
  • If passwd reports there was an error -- just try again, correcting whatever mistakes you made. You might also look at the passwd man page for more information.
  • When you are done changing password, just type exit at the shell prompt, thus closing your telnet, rlogin or ssh session.

Please contact support@binary.net if you have further questions on how to change your Binary Net account password.