lchage(1)                                                                                                              lchage(1)



NAME
       lchage - Display or change user password policy


SYNOPSIS
       lchage [OPTION]... user


DESCRIPTION
       Displays or allows changing password policy of user.


OPTIONS
       -d, --date=days
              Set the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970.


       -E, --expire=days
              Set the account expiration date to days after Jan 1 1970.  Set days to -1 to disable account expiration.


       -i, --interactive
              Ask  all  questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configura-
              tion.


       -I, --inactive=days
              Disable the account after days after password expires (after the user user is required to change the password).


       -l, --list
              Only list current user's policy and make no changes.


       -m, --mindays=days
              Require at least days days between password changes.  Set days to 0 to disable this checking.


       -M, --maxdays=days
              Require changing the password after days since last password change.  Set days to 99999 to disable this checking.


       -W, --warndays=days
              Start warning the user days before password expires (before the user is required to change the password).


EXIT STATUS
       The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.



libuser                                                    Jan 12 2005                                                 lchage(1)