Dear all

iam using RH-9 with vsftpd server(ftp). i want to know where the ftp passwords are stored. Whether it is seenable ? How to give rights to the users to change the password. Suppose when they forget the password how we can retrive the exact password. Please help me

you can never retrieve the password becaue the password is never stored anywhere.

the passowrds are encrypted with a destructive MD5HASH.
when the user logs in and enters a password, it is hashed straight away. the hash is compared with the stored hash in /etc/shadow and if they match, the user is allowed access.

if a user forgets the password, they should contact the root user with a sufficiant level of proof to proove they are the user (ID cards ?) and the root user can change the password with the command "passwd"

a user can change their own password by SSH'ing into the ftp server, and giving the |passwd" command.

thanx a lot