lchage(1)

✨ lchage — the password policy glow-up tool ✨

okay bestie, so this is lchage, a General Commands Manual page, and it's literally the sister command to chage but for libuser, and she's here to display or change your user's password policy 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lchage [OPTION]... user

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

She displays, or lets you change, the password policy of user. That's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly no cap 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d, --date=days — sets the date of last password change to days after Jan 1 1970. lowkey the time-travel option 🕰️
  • Set days to -1 to disable password expiration, i.e. to ignore --mindays, and --maxdays and related settings. she just stops caring.
  • Set days to 0 to enforce password change on next login. (This also disables password expiration until the password is changed.) dramatic but effective 😭
• -E, --expire=days — sets the account expiration date to days after Jan 1 1970. Set days to -1 to disable account expiration.
• -i, --interactive — asks all the questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration. she wants to hear it from you directly 💬
• -I, --inactive=days — disables the account after days after password expires (after the user is required to change the password). Set days to -1 to keep the account enabled indefinitely after password expiration.
• -l, --list — only lists current user's policy and makes no changes. read-only queen, she's just looking 👀
• -m, --mindays=days — requires at least days days between password changes. Set days to 0 or -1 to disable this requirement.
  • If this value is larger than the value set by --maxdays, the user cannot change the password. like, at all. trapped. 💀
• -M, --maxdays=days — requires changing the password after days since last password change. Set days to -1 to disable password expiration.
• -W, --warndays=days — starts warning the user days before password expires (before the user is required to change the password). Set days to 0 or -1 to disable the warning. giving them a lil heads up 🎀

🫶 EXIT STATUS 🫶

The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error. simple as that ✨

📝 NOTES 📝

Note that “account expiration” (set by --expire) is distinct from “password expiration” (set by --maxdays). Account expiration happens on a fixed date regardless of password changes. Password expiration is relative to the date of last password change. don't mix them up bestie, iykyk 🧚

and that's the whole page 💜 this one comes from libuser, dated Nov 8 2012, filed under lchage(1) in the General Commands Manual. iconic, timeless, no notes. periodt 💅🌸