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Top Forums Programming Users to submit email for ftp creation Post 303000507 by robertkwild on Thursday 13th of July 2017 11:17:24 AM
Old 07-13-2017
Users to submit email for ftp creation
hi all,

created a bash script to create an ftp account, its here -

Code:
#!/bin/bash

dir=/mnt/sftp
group=sftp_users

    echo "Enter UserName:"
    read user

    if id $user ; then
        echo "$user already exists as you can see above, please re-run the script"
        exit
        else
        echo "$user not in system, ok to continue"
    fi

    echo "Enter Password:"
    read passwd
    echo "$user:$passwd" >> /ftp_details/accounts.csv
    echo "is this a normal user (press 1) or vfx user (press 2) ?"
    read choice
    
    case $choice in
        1)
            useradd -g $group -d /upload -s /sbin/nologin $user
            mkdir -p $dir/$user/upload
            chown $user:$group $dir/$user/upload
            touch $dir/$user/upload/WARNING_everything_in_here_will_get_removed_in_14_days_time.txt
            ;;
        2)
            useradd $user -s /sbin/nologin -b /mnt/vfx/
            ;;
        *)
            echo "invalid selection, please re-run the script"
            exit
            ;;
    esac

    echo $user:$passwd | chpasswd

it works great but now i want to do something else which i dont know if possible but i will try and explain

i want the end user/customer/client or whoever submits an ftp user creation for us to send an email to sftp.molinare.co.uk and when they email it, the sftp server i created with the script will pick up what username and password they want to make the ftp account and it will create it and then send them an email saying the ftp account has been created with the username/password they gave

obviously i will configure postfix SMTP on the sftp server so it can do this

cheers,

rob
 

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