How to change user password with wp-cli?

Question

wp-cli is great. But it's not clear how I can quickly change a user password with it.

How to change a user's password programatically can probably help to figure this out.

Although wp user update username --field=password is not gonna cut it, apparently md5 is deprecated so it should go through wp_set_password.

Answer 1

This does the trick:

wp user update USERNAME --user_pass="PASSWORD"

(Found it here.)

Answer 2

first check the user name:

wp user list

then change password without leaving traces in history

wp user update admin --prompt=user_pass

Answer 3

Just to append one minor thing; sometimes the password may start with the = character. I prefer using this notation, just because of that.

wp user update USERNAME --user_pass="PASSWORD"

Answer 4

I have found that sudo definitely changes the path, so I have tried using --allow-root without sudo and the commands work