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. (Note that the registry variable holds only the encrypted MD5 hash of the password, 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. Thus, if a user's password is my password, it would be provided in a Perforce command as p4 -P "my password" command .

Related Commands

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