How do I force a user to change a password at the first time login using ssh?

Question

I'm trying to force a newly created user to change a password at the first time login using ssh. For security reasons I want to give him a secure password until he logs in for the first time. I did the following so far:

useradd -s /bin/bash -m -d /home/foo foo
passwd foo

Doing chage -d 0 foo only gives me the the error Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator on ssh login.

Answer 1

change the age of password to 0 day

syntax chage -d 0 {user-name}

In this case

chage -d0 foo

This works for me over ssh also

Answer 2

Depending on the version passwd you can try

• passwd -f: Forces the user to change password at the next login by expiring the password for name.

• passwd -e or passwd --expire: Immediately expire an account's password. This in effect can force a user to change his/her password at the user's next login.