While users can change their own passwords, select a different default shell and make changes to their environment settings (like their search paths), they cannot—at least not without root ...

Anybody know if I can just copy and paste passwd and shadow file entries from one server to another?<BR><BR>I want to migrate users off of one server onto another, but I don't want to have to ask them ...

i got an issue here i think. I needed to do a password recovery on my sparc solaris 8 box. It was successful but in the process I erased the root user from the /etc/shadow file. i realized my mistake ...