The reason we use the command below is because we need the md5sum value hash of the password. This means that we cannot use the md5sum
Change "yournewpass" to the pass you want to set
echo -n "yournewpass" | md5sum
Then you get the md5sum hash of whatever you entered eg. in this case "yournewpass"
5a9351ed00c7d484486c571e7a78c913 ........