lchage

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Jan 12 2005
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lchage - Display or change user password policy

lchage [OPTION]... user

Displays or allows changing password policy of user.

-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).

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

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