lchage

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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EXIT STATUS

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.

−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 user is required to change the password).

−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 to disable this checking.

−M, −−maxdays=days

Require changing the password after days since last password change. Set days to 99999 to disable this checking.

−W, −−warndays=days

Start warning the user days before password expires (before the user is required to change the password).

EXIT STATUS

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