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.

              Set  days  to  -1  to  disable  password  expiration (i.e. to ignore --mindays, and
              --maxdays and related settings).

              Set days to 0 to enforce password  change  on  next  login.   (This  also  disables
              password expiration until the password is changed.)

       -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 is required
              to change the password).  Set days to -1 to keep the account  enabled  indefinitely
              after password expiration.

       -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 or -1 to
              disable this requirement.

              If this value is larger than the value set by --maxdays, the user cannot change the
              password.

       -M, --maxdays=days
              Require  changing  the password after days since last password change.  Set days to
              -1 to disable password expiration.

       -W, --warndays=days
              Start warning the user days before password expires (before the user is required to
              change the password).  Set days to 0 or -1 to disable the warning.

EXIT STATUS

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

NOTES

       Note  that  “account  expiration” (set by --expire) is distinct from “password expiration”
       (set by --maxdays).  Account expiration happens on a fixed  date  regardless  of  password
       changes.  Password expiration is relative to the date of last password change.