passwd

passwd is used to update a user's authentication token(s).

• passwd [EN] @ Wikipedia

Documentation

• man 1 'passwd' [EN]

Syntax

passwd [PARAMETER ...] [USER]

Parameters

-S

This will output a short information about the status of the password for a given account. Available to root user only.

Examples

Show account information from user 'root'

passwd -S 'root'

Output:

root PS 2008-12-12 0 99999 7 -1 (Password set, MD5 crypt.)