lpasswd(1)                                                                                                            lpasswd(1)



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  configura-
              tion.


       -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  run-
              ning 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)