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lchage(1) General Commands Manual lchage(1)

NAME

lchage - Display or change user password policy

SYNOPSIS

lchage [OPTION]... user

DESCRIPTION

Displays or allows changing password policy of user.

OPTIONS

Set the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970.

Set the account expiration date to days after Jan 1 1970. Set days to -1 to disable account expiration.

Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.

Disable the account after days after password expires (after the user user is required to change the password).

Only list current user's policy and make no changes.

Require at least days days between password changes. Set days to 0 to disable this checking.

Require changing the password after days since last password change. Set days to 99999 to disable this checking.

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.

Jan 12 2005 libuser