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CentOS - How to Remove a User's Password and Require a New Password on First Access
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CentOS - How to Require Password Change.

Running the following command, as the root, removes the existing password and forces password change on first login for the for the user "root".

# passwd -d root \
  && chage -d 0 root

When root next logs in they will receive the following message:

You are required to change your password immediately (root enforced)

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