When assigning a new password using passwd the first time the user signs in they are forced to enter a new one. I am currently setting up over 100 users on a new system for a new application the uses a gui front end to access it. Because of this they never see the unex prompt so when they login the first time the application errors out because unix is asking them to enter a new password. Is there any way to turn off this option so that I don't have to login as each user to set their password? Thank you.

You can use a password syncronization tool. This way they would only have to change their password in the Windows world. Psync is one that comes to mind... there are a number of others.

Thank you for your response, but I am looking for something on the UNIX side. Possibly an option that can be set through smitty. I looked around, but did not find anything. Probably not looking in the right places.

try the following:

Thank you. I will give it a try.

chuckuykendall,
Thank you very much for that command. It saved me sevaral hours of having to login each person myself and do the change. I was able to put together a list of users and then insert that command with the appropriate flags and then execute the file with the commands in it. Worked perfectly!