shell or perl script to change ftp user password

vivek rai · 03-14-2009, 03:27 AM

Hi,

Can anyone help me creating shell or perl script to change ftp user password.

tronayne · 03-14-2009, 07:12 AM

Sure

Code:

su or sudo
passwd ftp

Gotta wonder, though, why it's got a password in the first place... (you should not need a password on ftp at all).

vivek rai · 03-14-2009, 08:51 AM

Thanks, But i need a script to change password of ftp users through ftpaswword command, so that ftp users can change their own password through that script.

tronayne · 03-14-2009, 05:02 PM

Oh, OK, looks like that can be done by the user; from the manual page,

Code:

ftpasswd --passwd --name=user --change-password

If you were going to do that with a shell program, it's a pretty straightforward process because the user's shell environment knows the user name so a one-liner would probably do; e.g.,

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
# changeit
#
[path-to]ftpasswd --passwd --name=${USER} --change-password

It should prompt and that's pretty much that.

'Course you have to set it up first with the proper options, but that looks like it would do (and users really ought to know what their user name is and should be able to handle typing the above, eh?). Unless I'm missing something really basic, it seems like a shell or PERL program is, uh, overkill for the purpose.

vivek rai · 03-15-2009, 01:09 PM

hi,
i need the script from which user can change their own password and the password location is /etc/proftp.passwd .