Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!cernapo.cern.ch!rtb From: rtb@cernapo.cern.ch (Rainer Tobbicke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Unable to update /etc/passwd or registry. Not owner Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 12:05:56 GMT References: <738@bcstec.boeing.com> <508085fb.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <509e3823.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: news@cernvax.cern.ch Lines: 16 pato@apollo.HP.COM (Joe Pato) writes: >This problem will go away if the administrator sets a new password for the >account and the user logs in with the new password. Thanks for the hint. But I reckon we'll have to change some 600 users. All at more or less the same time. Impossible to manage 600 different non-trivial passwords within a couple of hours... If only I could put the user's ENCODED password back into the registry! Anybody got an idea?? -- Rainer Toebbicke European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) Geneva, Switzerland rtb@cernapo.cern.ch, rtb@cernvm.cern.ch