#3 passwdc fails to change passwd after passwdc_usradd

[David Blaine]

Ran passwdc_usradd to add an account. Then ran
passwdc (as the user) to change the password on that
account. Noted that password field in /etc/shadow for
that account contains "*" so fails to logon (found that
error in sources in file shadow.cpp). So tried passwdc as
root and it fails with "access denied." But I can run
passwdc to change root's password ok. Why not another
user? Checked permissions in passwdd.conf (root
belongs to master and users_allow). Running passwdd-
11pl2 on solaris 8.