CentOS - May 2008 - [OT]: Passing password for a command on the fly

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.

I knew how to do this a long time ago, but I've forgotten and couldn't
find anything useful on Google.

Any help would be appreciated.

Warm Regards,
M?rio Gamito

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:38:17AM +0100, M?rio 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

-- 
lfr
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El 16/05/2008, a las 10:38, M?rio Gamito escribi?:
> 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,

--
Santi Saez
Hostalia Internet S.L.U.
http://www.hostalia.com

Dear Luciano (aka strange),

Thank you very nice :)

Kind Regards,
M?rio Gamito

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Luciano Rocha <strange at nsk.no-ip.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:38:17AM +0100, M?rio 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
>
> --
> lfr
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>
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