Creating password for command on the fly

Creating password for command on the fly

[Mário Gamito]

Hi,

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.

I need to pass the password (preferably without expect) so I can
create the account without prompting.

If i run:

# echo secret | pure-pw useradd mario -u 502 -g 502 -n 1000 -N 200 -d
/home/pages/gamito

It reads the first insertion, but asks for the second.

I knew how to do this a long time ago, but I've forgotten and couldn't
find anything useful on Google.

Any help would be appreciated.

Warm Regards,
Mário Gamito
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Re: Creating password for command on the fly

[terry white]

... ciao:

: on "5-16-2008" "Mário Gamito" writ:

: I need to pass the password (preferably without expect) so I can
: create the account without prompting.

   man sleep ...


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Re: Creating password for command on the fly

[Adam T. Bowen]

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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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Re: Creating password for command on the fly

[Carsten Aulbert]

Mário Gamito wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> I need to pass the password (preferably without expect) so I can
> create the account without prompting.
> 
> If i run:
> 
> # echo secret | pure-pw useradd mario -u 502 -g 502 -n 1000 -N 200 -d
> /home/pages/gamito
> 
> It reads the first insertion, but asks for the second.

Have you tried 'yes'?

"yes PASSWORD" will output PASSWORD as many times as possible until
STDIN is closed.


Cheers

Carsten
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