Studying the CentOS/RHEL sysadmin manual, I can't understand if there are or what are the differences between these commands.
1 Answer
passwd
is a traditional unix command. lpasswd
appears to belong to the libuser project, "a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts."
% ls -li =passwd =lpasswd
3149052 -rwsr-xr-x. 1 root root 30768 Feb 17 2012 /usr/bin/passwd
3155939 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33240 Jul 10 2015 /usr/sbin/lpasswd
% rpm -qf =passwd
passwd-0.77-4.el6_2.2.x86_64
% rpm -qf =lpasswd
libuser-0.56.13-8.el6_7.x86_64
% rpm -q --queryformat='%{URL}\n' libuser
https://fedorahosted.org/libuser/
lpasswd
lacks a setuid bit, so that's interesting.