Password change on first login via ssh

[Allen van der Ross]

Boyd Kelly wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having a problem getting RH 3.0 to prompt user to change password
> on first login with ssh.  This works more or less ok on RH 2.1,
> perfectly on Gentoo 2.6 kernel, but not at all on RH 3.0.
> 
> I do the following:
> 
> Useradd newuser
> Usermod -p "" newuser
> Chage -d 0 newuser
> 

Just a thought, but is the SSHD configured to accept/allow
empty passwords? Try setting:

PermitEmptyPasswords yes

in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.

Cheers,
Allen.