1lchage(1)                   General Commands Manual                  lchage(1)
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NAME

6       lchage - Display or change user password policy
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SYNOPSIS

10       lchage [OPTION]... user
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DESCRIPTION

14       Displays or allows changing password policy of user.
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OPTIONS

18       -d, --date=days
19              Set the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970.
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22       -E, --expire=days
23              Set  the  account expiration date to days after Jan 1 1970.  Set
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27       -i, --interactive
28              Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even  if
29              default answers are set up in libuser configuration.
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32       -I, --inactive=days
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34              user user is required to change the password).
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37       -l, --list
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41       -m, --mindays=days
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48              change.  Set days to 99999 to disable this checking.
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EXIT STATUS

57       The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
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61libuser                           Jan 12 2005                        lchage(1)