Man page - lpasswd(1)

Packages contains this manual

Package: libuser
apt-get install libuser

Manuals in package:

Documentations in package:

libuser

Manual

lpasswd

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT STATUS

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.