>(After all, I still can't even make /usr/bin/passwd work for users who
>aren't in wheel! :-P)

just curious...if passwd by itself doesn't work, what about trying
passwd with the username of the user for whom you want to change the
passwd?  eg, as user foo, do "passwd foo".

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