p4 passwd

Synopsis

Syntax

Description

Once a password has been set, it must be provided to the Perforce server program when any Perforce client command is run. You can do this in one of three ways:

• Set the environment or registry variable P4PASSWD to the password value;

• Create a setting for P4PASSWD within the P4CONFIG file;

• Use the -P password flag on the Perforce client command line, as in p4 -u ida -P idaspwd edit .

On Windows clients, p4 passwd stores the password for you by performing p4 set to change the local registry variable. (The registry variable holds only the encrypted MD5 hash , not the password itself.)

To delete a password, set the password value to an empty string.

Options

-O oldpassword	Avoid prompting by specifying the old password on the command line.
-P newpassword	Avoid prompting by specifying the new password on the command line.
user	Superusers can provide this argument to change the password of another user.
g_opts	See the Global Options section.

Usage Notes

Can File Arguments Use Revision Specifier?	Can File Arguments Use Revision Range?	Minimal Access Level Required
N/A	N/A	list

• The p4 passwd command never sends plaintext passwords over the network; a challenge/response mechanism is used to send the MD5 hash of the password to the server.

• Passwords may contain spaces; command line use of such passwords requires quotes. If a user's password is my passw, it would be provided in a Perforce command as p4 -P "my passw" command .

• If a user forgets his or her password, a Perforce superuser can reset it by specifying the username on the command line: p4 passwd username

Related Commands

To change other user options	p4 user
To change users' access levels	p4 protect