lchage(8)

lchage8

Display or change user password policy

Usage

lchage [OPTION] ... user

Overview

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.

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

  1. 4.0–7

From libuser 1:0.56.9.dfsg.1-1.2 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.