lpasswd(1) - Linux man page

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Description

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).

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