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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Justin Ashworth wrote:

> Is there a way for one user to change another user's password? 

The superuser can run 'passwd user' to change user's password.  

Root can also modify /etc/master.passwd manually and regenerate the
password database.  

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