On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:38:17AM +0100, Mário Gamito wrote:

Hi,

First things first, sorry for the off-topic, but I've already burned my eyes Googling and couldn't find the answer to what I need and I remembered asking here, because I'm a long time CentOS and its mailing list user. Again, my apologies.

I have this command to create an FTP account:

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

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.

(echo secret; echo secret) | pure-pw ...

Or: echo -e 'secret\nsecret' | pure-pw

Or: pure-pw <<EOF secret secret EOF

El 16/05/2008, a las 10:38, Mário Gamito escribió:

I have this command to create an FTP account:

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

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.

Dear Mario,

I have the same problem some days ago, try with this:

( echo ${PASSWORD} ; echo ${PASSWORD} ) | pure-pw useradd ${USUARIO} - u ftpuser -g ftpgroup -d /backup/${USUARIO} -N ${QUOTA} -m > /dev/ null 2>&1

From the FAQ at:

http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/FAQ

"* Passwords and pure-pw scripting."

==================================================================== -> I would like to create virtual users with a shell-script. if i us pure-pw useradd ..... it always asks for the new password. is there any command-line option which tells pure-pw the password (like useradd ftp-user ftp-password -m) ? (at1ce) .

Giving cleartext (and badly one-way hashed) passwords through command- line switches is a bad idea. Because users could issue a simple 'ps' command and discover these passwords.

One way to enter a password (not from the keyboard) is to put the password twice in a temporary file, then redirect that file to stdin. Example:

pure-pw useradd john -d /tmp/john -u ftpuser -m < ~/tmp/passfile

And in ~/tmp/passfile, have something like:

john's password john's password

If you really need to avoid a temporary file and if nobody but you can log on the machine, you can always do this:

(echo blahblah; echo blahblah) | pure-pw useradd john -d /tmp/john -u ftpuser ====================================================================

Regards,

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