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

       -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).

EXIT STATUS

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