how to reset password with nologin shell?

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> If I have a user that has a nologin shell and they forget
> thier password, is there a way to give them a new password?
> 
> Right now I am resetting their password to nil, then
> giving them a shell like /bin/sh, logging in on their behalf,
> setting up a password, and then changing their shell back
> to /bin/nologin.
> 
> I would like to elliminate the noshell to shell and then
> back to noshell part.

If you have root - you must have, just type  'passwd USERID' 
Substitute the real user name for USERID and don't use the quotes.
Root can set password for any user - but make sure you put a 
username because if you don't, you will set root's password.

////jerry