Re: Creating password for command on the fly

["Adam T. Bowen" <adamb@agitate.org.uk>]

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Hi,

Mário Gamito wrote:
> I have this command to create an FTP account:
> 
> # pure-pw useradd mario -u 502 -g 502 -n 1000 -N 200 -d /home/pages/gamito
> 
> This command asks for the password twice.

It's a shame it doesn't allow you to pass in a password on the command 
line, like the UNIX useradd command, but hey ho.

I wouldn't bother using the pure-pw command, and would modify the 
/etc/pureftpd.passwd file manually.  I had a quick look at the 
documentation and it seems you have to make sure you rebuild the passwd 
database to commit any changes with:

pure-pw mkdb

if you manually edit it.  There is a description of the passwd file 
format in the documentation.  Here is an extract:

---------------------------------------------------------
You can also edit the files by hand if you want.

Files storing virtual users have one line per user. These lines have the
following syntax:

<account>:<password>:<uid>:<gid>:<gecos>:<home directory>:<upload
bandwidth>:<download bandwidth>:<upload ratio>:<download ratio>:<max 
number of connections>:<files quota>:<size quota>:<authorized local 
IPs>:<refused local IPs>:<authorized client IPs>:<refused client 
IPs>:<time restrictions>

Fields can be left empty (exceptions: account, password, uid, gid, home
directory) .
---------------------------------------------------------

Alternatively, you may be able to do something like:

echo "password\npassword" | pure-pw useradd ...

but I don't run or have the pure ftp stuff installed, so I can't promise 
that that will work.  Depends on how the command reads input from stdin.

Hope that helps

Cheers

Adam


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