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CentOS 5.4 |
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lchage(1) |
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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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