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.

              Set days to -1 to disable password expiration (i.e. to ignore --mindays, and --maxdays and related
              settings).

              Set  days  to 0 to enforce password change on next login.  (This also disables password expiration
              until the password is changed.)

       -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 configuration.

       -I, --inactive=days
              Disable the account after days after password expires (after the user is required  to  change  the
              password).  Set days to -1 to keep the account enabled indefinitely after password expiration.

       -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 or -1 to disable this
              requirement.

              If this value is larger than the value set by --maxdays, the user cannot change the password.

       -M, --maxdays=days
              Require changing the password after days since last password change.  Set days to  -1  to  disable
              password expiration.

       -W, --warndays=days
              Start  warning  the  user  days before password expires (before the user is required to change the
              password).  Set days to 0 or -1 to disable the warning.

EXIT STATUS

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

NOTES

       Note that “account expiration”  (set  by  --expire)  is  distinct  from  “password  expiration”  (set  by
       --maxdays).   Account  expiration  happens  on  a  fixed  date  regardless of password changes.  Password
       expiration is relative to the date of last password change.

libuser                                            Nov 8 2012                                          lchage(1)