Should I write "You are not authorised to change other users passwords" or "You are not authorised to change other user's password"? Which is correct?
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It's actually other users' passwords (possessive plural). See a related question and others linked from there and in the "apostrophe" tag. – Andrew Leach Oct 06 '14 at 11:54
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Other users is plural. In this sentence, it needs to be possessive. The correct form would be
You are not authorised to change other users' passwords.
If it were singular, it would be another user's password
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@bib Congratulations: your answer was post 200000 on this site! – chiastic-security Oct 09 '14 at 15:06
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@chiastic-security Gee, I thought I had personally made 200,000 posts on this site. – bib Oct 09 '14 at 15:09