Hi all,

I have 2 problems that i need to ask:
1. Is there a way to automatically force the user to change password during the initial login? as in not manually key in the command but store it into the configuration file?

2. Enabling stronger passwords.
in my /etc/pam.d/system-auth.
I have already set this
password requisite /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=8 lcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 dcredit=-1 ocredit=0 difok=3

but, when i log into the user to change passwords, i still can key in passwords like qwerty

any idea why is this happening?

1 - force the user to change their password when they login, expire the account. - passwd -e username

2 - In not sure here.

for 1. yiah that is the normal way.
Is there a way to save it into the configuration file? so it will automatically add for each user?

no you could script it some thing to read through the password file and do it for each user, may require it bit of smarts to only work on user ids greater than 500 for example, should be easy enough.