OPTIONS
-k The option, -k, is used to indicate that the update should only
be for expired authentication tokens (passwords); the user
wishes to keep their non-expired tokens as before.
-l This option is used to lock the specified aclearcase/" target="_blank" >ccount and it is
available to root only. The locking is performed by rendering
the encrypted password into an invalid string (by prefixing the
encrypted string with an !).
--stdin
This option is used to indicate that passwd should read the new
password from standard input, which can be a pipe.
-u This is the reverse of the -l option - it will unlock the
account password by removing the ! prefix. This option is avail-
able to root only. By default passwd will refuse to create a
passwordless account (it will not unlock an account that has
only "!" as a password). The force option -f will override this
protection.
-d This is a quick way to disable a password for an account. It
will set the named account passwordless. Available to root only.
-n This will set the minimum password lifetime, in days, if the
userâ