How does a user change their password?

james.ernst · Post by **james.ernst** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 4:54 pm

I've asked via the support email, and I've searched all over the internet.

How can an user change their password on our CoreFtp Server SFTP site? I've right-clicked from the client and attempted to send a command (e.g. PSWD) but all I get back is an error message saying "Server refused to start a shell/command".

Is there something I have to do to enable shell or command functionality?

If there's no way to change passwords, I will have to drop this software and go with one that follows some sort of reasonable security standards.

Post by **ForumAdmin** » Thu Jul 25, 2013 10:45 pm

PSWD will work with FTP/SSL/FTPS, but not SFTP.

There hasn't been an option via SFTP for the client to do it because it's not supported by the SFTP protocol.

An option will be added to change the SFTP password via SSH, using the passwd command (from any terminal) in build 491 and greater.

Example: ssh user@domain passwd

It should soon be added to the Core FTP client also. [as of build 1931 - Change password option (right click remote - misc)]

Post by **ForumAdmin** » Thu May 04, 2017 7:15 pm

Additionally the user setting "Allow user to change password" needs to be checked.