lpasswd(1)lpasswd(1)NAMElpasswd - Change group or user password
SYNOPSISlpasswd [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 dif‐
ferent user.
Entering an empty password (by pressing Enter) aborts the password set‐
ting 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.
libuser Jan 12 2005 lpasswd(1)
