Changing main ftp password through api

Hi Irritum,

If you want to change a select FTP user's password, I'd suggest using the API2 Ftp::passwd function. You can call it via XML-API.

Scenario:
1) your cpuser account 'dave' which controls 'mydomain.tld'
2) 'dave' has an ftp user named "unique" in addition to his primary ftp user named "dave"
3) "unique"'s actual ftp username is 'unique@mydomain.tld', while his primary ftp username is 'dave@mydomain.tld'
4) you which to alter the password for 'unique' to "S3cr3t"

The query string would be something like this

Code:

https://$server:2087/xml-api/cpanel
DATA: user=unique%40mydomain.tld&pass=S3cr3t&cpanel_xmlapi_user=dave&cpanel_xmlapi_module=Ftp&cpanel_xmlapi_func=passwd&cpanel_xmlapi_apiversion=2

If you're using our XML-API PHP class, the code would be similar to this

PHP:

include("xmlapi.php");

$ip = "1.1.1.1";
$root_pass = "r00tS3cr3t";

$xmlapi = new xmlapi($ip);
$xmlapi->password_auth("root",$root_pass);

//$xmlapi->set_debug(1);
$args = array(
    'user' => 'unique@mydomain.tld',
    'pass' => 'S3cr3t',
);
$xmlapi->api2_query('dave','Ftp','passwd',$args);


That said, you cannot selectively change the password for the primary ftp login, aka 'dave@mydomain.tld' in our example above. This is not something that we currently support in cPanel. If you need this functionality, I suggest you open (or comment on an already existent) feature request in the Feature Request forum

--
And yes, the native XML-API change password function will change the primary ftp username credential. Like I mentioned earlier, cPanel currently synchronizes the ftp and cPanel logins credentials...they are coupled. Invoking this function will change: cPanel, ftp (primary user only), mail (primary user only), FrontPage(if installed), MySQL (unless optionally told not to), and PostgreSQL (if installed)


Regards,
-DavidN