vsftpd - how to change a virtual user password?
 

Hi, I'm really a newbie when it comes to Linux, so please bear with me.

We have a working FTP using vsftpd with a pam.d database (by the looks of it).

I've found the list of users/password in the /etc/vsftpd/ folder called passwd, but they are all encrypted.

How can I change the password for a single user? I'm sorry I've been looking for over 3 hourw, still don't understand how to do this.

Thank you very much for whomever can help.

Hi,

You didn't say much about your setup. Anyways my guess is that you can run:
to change the password of user foo.
See this for more details
Don't forget to make a backup of /etc/vsftpd/passwd first, so in case something goes wrong, you can restore /etc/vsftpd/passwd

Regards