login_lchpass(8)

login_lchpass8

Change local password authentication type

Usage

login_lchpass [-s service] user [class]

Overview

The login_lchpass utility is typically called from login(1). It is functionally the same as calling the program: “passwd user”.

Only the login service is supported. See login.conf(5). The class argument is not used.

Releases

52 releases since OpenBSD 3.0; the text changed 3 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–4.1
  3. 4.2–5.8
  4. 5.9–8.0

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.