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Old 03-11-2008
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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You can just go over to a Linux box, set the user's password, and see the result in the shadow file.

I do not know if encryption is identical on those three Unixes.

Your other choice: run some sort of script to update passwords remotely.