FTP access to other staff?

[Hermoine22]

Okay so I am wondering if I make an ftp account for other staff how can they change their password without accessing cpanel?

 

[Corey]

They can't... it has to be done via cPanel.

 

[tserwery.solutions70]

If it's on VPS then if they have access to SSH they can change password using cmd

passwd {user_name}

 

[Dead-i]

If you were to use tserwery.solutions70's method as the user (and not root), then the staff only has to enter 'passwd' not 'passwd {user_name}'.

If you want it is possible to make a PHP script to do this, but I think it would require the installation of PHP SSH2_CONNECT which I managed to install fine on my CentOS server with the help of a handy tutorial.

 

[GtoXic]

If you were to use tserwery.solutions70's method as the user (and not root), then the staff only has to enter 'passwd' not 'passwd {user_name}'.

If you want it is possible to make a PHP script to do this, but I think it would require the installation of PHP SSH2_CONNECT which I managed to install fine on my CentOS server with the help of a handy tutorial.

That is not entirely true, PHP's exec(); function can handle that with the right knowledge. There is an article at http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/change-linux-or-unix-system-password-using-php-script.html that describes how you can achieve this too.