[mdlug] useradd password - can I force first logon change and set initial pass word?

[Mathew May]

You can do it, but it is a multi step process. 

First you need to run something like the following "openssl passwd -crypt {the user's password}" This will display the password hash. 

Then run "useradd -e 2014-12-31 -d /home/myuser -s /bin/bash -p {the password hash generated in the first step} myuser. 

That should give you what you want. You will just need to keep the hash written down somewhere for safe keeping. 

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From: gib at juno.com 
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Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:22:28 PM 
Subject: [mdlug] useradd password - can I force first logon change and set initial pass word? 

adduser password - can I force first logon change and set initial password? I want to be able to create a VMware template with a user ID that has an initial password andalso will force the user to enter an initial password. When I set an initial password it will not force it to change when logging on the first time.To force the initial password to change with the first logon I can't set an initial password.I don't have the "adduser" script available. This is what I'm using: useradd -e 2014-12-31 -d /home/myuser -s /bin/bash myuser 
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