Change UBUNTU admin passwd using GUI

[nss000]

Gents:

Running UBUNTU_12.04.4

Can I change admin password from a GUI ?

systemtools --> systemsetting--> useraccounts provides **no obvious tool** enabling this change ... infact clicking here-and-there etc. provides no obvious tool to do anything. Mebby it's a REPORTs function only and I should call another process.

Anyrate I'd appreciate a clue for changing my "boss" admin password.

Oh yeah ... assuming nearly the worst should I unplug my system from the web while making this password change?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

This has wandered quite a ways off the main topic. Further discussion on the topic of the last 6 or 8 posts should be carried over into a new thread.

 

[nss000]

Thanks again to all posters on this thread. Vis' the initial subject: a new password for my workstation, I have chosen a new passphrase, which is while novel contains all the traditional dis-sembliers, is long, easy-to-remember and which for recovery **hides** quite naturally and innocently among a household of scribbled reminders, bash-cheats, doodles, reviews, comments, maths derivations, colored markers and lecture-notes.

So this thread has a practical, successful outcome for me. Thanks again to all. Yeah yeah Vito and Tony still watch from across the street, but it IS a free country.