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.