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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Tim Stoddard wrote:

> Is there a utility that when a user logs in for the first time it forces a
> password change.  

Yes, you can use the password expiry feature to do this.  See passwd(5).
Set the expiration to 1 second.  This value isn't propagated after they
change the password.  

You can modify adduser to automatically stick this in pretty easily, as
long as you can do Perl. 

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