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lpasswd − Change group or user password |
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lpasswd [OPTION]... [name] |
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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. |
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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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The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error. |