lpasswd (1) Linux Manual Page
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
- -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).