How to Configure User to Change Password at First Login

Configure Initial Password  

# useradd –u 2001 -c 'John Doe' –d /home/jdoe jdoe  

# passwd jdoe  

Changing password for user jdoe.  

New password:  

Retype new password:  

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.  

  

• # usermod -L jdoe   
• # chage -d 0 jdoe   
• # usermod -U jdoe   
• When the user jdoe logs onto the system the first time, the user is prompted to change their password, the 'chage -d 0' will require user to change password at first login.