lpasswd - Change group or user password
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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.
Exit Status
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
libuser Jan 12 2005 lpasswd(1)
Name
lpasswd - Change group or user password
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).
Synopsis
lpasswd [OPTION]... [name]
