FWIW, this perl script does the trick. Someone else was asking about pro-ftp @ the slug so may this will also help them. Just wasn't thorough enough in checking links @ www.proftpd.org
http://www.castaglia.org/proftpd/contrib/ftpasswd Stuart Matt Hope wrote: >Opps, sorry: hit the wrong button in reply. > >----- Forwarded message from Matt Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > >Subject: Re: [SLUG] /etc/new-passwd creation >From: Matt Hope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:35:37 +1100 > >On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Stuart Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > >: Checked man and google. Is there an obvious way to create a new passwd >: file (/etc/new-passwd) and add users/passwds to it instead of to >: /etc/passwd? >: I'm trying to implement a seperate passwd file to the normal passwd for >: my proftp. The command in proftp AuthUserFile is easy, setting up the >: new -passwd file is not obvious. > >the password file is just a standard format > >sample: >root:x:0:0:root:/root:/usr/bin/zsh > >user:crypted-password:uid:gid:gecos:home:shell > >for proftpd, you need all of these except gecos, and possibly shell. > >It'd be easy to write a perl script which will do this, using crypt() for >the password. Otherwise, apache includes a program called "htpasswd" which >will create password files as user:cryptedpassword which you could hand >edit. > >dopey > >----- End forwarded message ----- > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
