lpasswd
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Jan 12 2005
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NAME
lpasswd - Change group or user password
SYNOPSIS
lpasswd [
OPTION]... [
name]
DESCRIPTION
Changes password of user or group
name.
If the name argument is not provided,
username of the invoking user is used;
the name argument is ignored if
lpasswd
is run set-uid to a different user.
Entering an empty password (by pressing Enter)
aborts the password setting operation.
OPTIONS
- -F, --plainpassword-fd=fd
-
Read password from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file,
'\r' or '\n'.
- -f, --password-fd=fd
-
Read password hash from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file,
'\r' or '\n'.
- -g, --group
-
Change password of group name.
By default the password of user name is changed.
- -i, --interactive
-
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database,
even if default answers are set up in
libuser
configuration.
- -P, --plainpassword=password
-
Set the password to password.
Note that the password can be viewed while running
lpasswd
using tools such as
ps(1).
- -p, --password=encrypted
-
Set the password to the password represented by the hash encrypted.
Note that the hash can be viewed while running
lpasswd
using tools such as
ps(1).
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.