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# 8  
Old 09-06-2008
As the adminitrator of the system with root access you may change any users password (needed for when the user has forgotten) by running:
# password username

You will be prompted for a new password but not the user's old password, therefore you do not need to edit the /etc/shadow file to change a users password.

Changing a users password field in /etc/shadow to "::" means they may log on without providing a password, not good!
# 9  
Old 09-07-2008
Using the shadow file was just meant to be a temp solution (quick and dirty). Pls do see the other recommendations which I provided. This problem was raised due to the Permission denied error. Not because that the PL did not know how to change a user password. Fyi. Smilie
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