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.

libuser                                            Jan 12 2005                                        lpasswd(1)