ftpasswd(1)

✨ ftpasswd — the girlboss of FTP account files ✨

okay bestie, so we're in the General Commands Manual section of ftpasswd(1) and this little Perl baddie is literally the reason your FTP server knows who's allowed in 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

ftpasswd — a Perl script for managing AuthUserFiles and AuthGroupFiles. yes, she does both. multitasking queen 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ftpasswd [ options ]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so ftpasswd is a Perl script, and her whole entire job — her purpose, her main character arc — is to create and manage AuthUserFiles and AuthGroupFiles in the correct format for proftpd. like she just does it. correctly. every time. no notes 💅✨

not me being a whole script that exists purely so you don't have to hand-write your auth files and get the format wrong 😭 she's serving convenience fr fr

the full documentation for ftpasswd lives at:

http://www.proftpd.org/docs/utils/ftpasswd.html

go read it, it's giving thorough 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

ProFTPD is written and maintained by a number of people — a whole squad, a whole crew, an ensemble cast 🎬 — and the full credits can be found at:

http://www.proftpd.org/credits.html

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• proftpd(8) — the main event, the big sister, the one you actually came here for 💜
• full documentation on ProFTPD, including configuration and FAQs, is available at:

http://www.proftpd.org/

• for help/support, try the ProFTPD mailing lists, detailed on:

http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html

• report bugs at:

http://bugs.proftpd.org/

pls do report the bugs bestie, they can't fix what they don't know about 🙈

and that's the whole page, periodt 🍓 this was ftpasswd(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated March 2011 — iconic, timeless, still slaying 🌸💅✨