---
name: "lppasswd"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "cups-client"
version: "1.7.5-11+deb8u2"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lppasswd"
---

# lppasswd(1)

add, change, or delete digest passwords.

## NAME

lppasswd - add, change, or delete digest passwords.

## SYNOPSIS

**lppasswd** \[ *username* \]\
 **lppasswd** -a \[ -g *groupname* \] *username*\
 **lppasswd** -x *username*

## DESCRIPTION

*lppasswd* adds, changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS digest password file, *passwd.md5*. When run by a normal user, *lppasswd* will prompt for the old and new passwords. When run by the super-user, *lppasswd* can add new accounts (*-a username*), change existing accounts (*username*), or delete accounts (*-x username*) in the digest password file. Digest usernames do not have to match local UNIX usernames.

## OPTIONS

*lppasswd* supports the following options:

- \-g groupname

  Specifies a group other than the default system group.

## SECURITY ISSUES

By default, the *lppasswd* program is not installed to allow ordinary users to change their passwords. To enable this, the *lppasswd* command must be made setuid to root with the command:\

```
chmod u+s lppasswd
```

This change will be overridden by further updates of the cups-client package. The following command ensures that it will be preserved:

```
dpkg-statoverride --add root root 4755 /usr/bin/lppasswd
```

While every attempt has been made to make *lppasswd* secure against exploits that could grant super-user privileges to unprivileged users, paranoid system administrators may wish to use Basic authentication with accounts managed by PAM instead.

## SEE ALSO

*[lp(1)](/lp/1.md)*, *[lpr(1)](/lpr/1.md)*,\
 http://localhost:631/help

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2007-2013 by Apple Inc.