update-passwd command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

update-passwd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update-passwd: command not found

Solutions to update-passwd: command not found

How To Fix update-passwd: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu update-passwd is provided by base-passwd package.

base-passwd is:

These are the canonical master copies of the user database files (/etc/passwd and /etc/group), containing the Debian-allocated user and group IDs. The update-passwd tool is provided to keep the system databases synchronized with these master files.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install base-passwd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install base-passwd.

sudo apt -y install base-passwd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install base-passwd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix update-passwd command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.