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.
