script question 2

[stasJohn]

I'm creating a shell script to automate the creationg of web space on my server.

Basically, the first step is it creates a new user and sets the proper permissions to the user and public_html directories.

I perform the following line

useradd -G ftp,apache -m -n -p password $1

$1 is obviously a parameter. Now, when I try to access the folder via ftp, it recognized the username but password fails. I want to set the password from within the script. Am I doing it wrong?

Thanks in advance.

 

[lgarner]

From "man useradd":

"-p passwd
The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3). The default is to disable the account."

So, it will work, but it must be pre-encrypted. You're probably giving it plaintext.

 

[zeland]

The -p option expects output from the crypt function as stated in the man pages. You can however put in another line like below into your script:

echo password | passwd --stdin $1

This basically echos the word password to the passwd program as the password for user $1.


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[stasJohn]

thanks for the replies. The echo method worked beautifully.

It didn't work for the following though;

htpasswd -cb .passwd $1 $2

which I changed to...

echo $2 | htpasswd -cb .passwd $1 --stdin

and ideas?

 

[lgarner]

The regular htpasswd command should work fine. It does use the plaintext version of the password.

Try "htpasswd -cb .passwd username password" from the command line. You should have a new .passwd file in the current directory.

 

[rzs0502]

Another thing you can try in your script is 'chpasswd'
Works on my AIX and Slackware systems and I'm sure it'll be on others.
Basically:

echo 'usernameassword' | chpasswd

or you can have a file with
username1assword
username2assword

and use chpasswd using this file



"If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been."

 

[stasJohn]

ah yes, thanks so much!