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lpasswd - Unix, Linux Command
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
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-F, --plainpassword-fd=fd
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Read password from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file,
\r or \n.
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-f, --password-fd=fd
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Read password hash from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file,
\r or \n.
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-g, --group
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Change password of group name.
By default the password of user name is changed.
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-i, --interactive
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Ask all questions when connecting to the user database,
even if default answers are set up in
libuser configuration.
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-P, --plainpassword=password
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Set the password to password.
Note that the password can be viewed while running
lpasswd using tools such as
ps(1).
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-p, --password=encrypted
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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).
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EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
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