Ensim’s (aka Parallels Pro Control Panel X for Linux) alternative ChangePasswdVirtUser

Ensim former Parallels Pro Control Panel X for Linux has a command line interface scripts as you SHOULD know 😉 which allows you to do several administrative tasks without login to the appliance. The other day I started to write an API in order to admin N Ensim servers with only 1 interface which is a lot of work/code but hell, I’ll post some screenshots later 🙂 … So one of the biggest problems I had was the script ChangePasswdVirtUser (located in /usr/local/bin), which allows you to change a virtual user’s password asking for the new password 2 times and I didn’t want to ruin my weekend and decided to hack that script and make it work like this: ChangePasswdVirtUser domain.com user newpassword

That’s so insecure! I know and I’ll come later with a more secure alternative don’t worry 😉 in the meantime you can play with it:

File: /usr/local/bin/ChangePasswdVirtUser1

#!/usr/bin/ensim-python
#
# Usage:
#
# ChangePasswdVirtUser   
#
# Example:
#
# AddVirtUser myco.com joe doe

import getopt
import getpass
import sys
import traceback
from vh3 import virthost
from vh3 import virtutil
from vh3.modules import users
import string
import be_vherrordisp

if (len(sys.argv) < 4) or (sys.argv[1] == "--help"):
    print "usage: ChangePasswdVirtUser1   "
    sys.exit(0)
else:
    # checks to see if we are in maintenance mode
    virthost.checkMaintenance()

    status = be_vherrordisp.CLIError.SUCCESS
    status_obj = be_vherrordisp.CLIError()
    options, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:],"")
    siteindex = virthost.get_site_from_anything(string.lower(args[0]))
    username = string.lower(args[1])
    passwd1 = args[2]
    if not siteindex:
        print "Domain %s does not exist on this server."% string.lower(args[0])
        sys.exit(1)
    ret = []
    try:
        virthost.edit_user(ret, siteindex, username, None, passwd1, None, None)
        status = virthost.cli_display_status_list(ret)
    except:
        status = be_vherrordisp.CLIError.ERROR
        print traceback.print_exc()
    sys.exit(status)