Can I use SQL to update multiple rows with multiple values from another table?

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I've got a one to many table with ids and traits for those users. I want to copy one user's settings to another.

userid    trait    onoff
------    -----    -----
1          1         on
1          2         on
1          3         on
1          4         on
2          1         off
2          2         off
2          3         off
2          4         off

So I want to copy the onoff values from user 1 to 2, so that user2 has everything on when I'm done.

update table set onoff = (select onoff from table where userid=1) where userid=2

that's the basic idea, but obviously doesn't work. I imagine I want the server to think in terms of a correlated subquery, but the outer part isn't a query, it's an update.

Is this even possible in one step?

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