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.

       -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 user is required to change
              the password).

       -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 to disable this checking.

       -M, --maxdays=days
              Require changing the password after days since last password change.  Set days to 99999 to disable
              this checking.

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

EXIT STATUS

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

libuser                                            Jan 12 2005                                         lchage(8)