Manually Creating FTP Accounts in Pure/Pro FTP

I have a server running Pure-FTP, but the server has run ProFTPD at some points. In fact, the virtual FTP users for Pure-FTP are being managed in the /etc/proftpd/passwd.vhosts file. The users have all been created thus far in cPanel, and everything is working fine.

There's just one problem: I want to create a script which will do automated setups of FTP accounts for us, and I can't, for the life of me, find any directions on how to add virtual ftp users to /etc/proftpd/passwd.vhosts via the command line. All the instructions refer to using the passwd command, but that doesn't appear to let me specify the file to which to add the user. If I use passwd, doesn't the user just end up in /etc/passwd? How can I accomplish this?

I found some documentation which refers to a ftpasswd command, but that is nonexistant in my old RedHat 9.

This seems like a silly question to have to ask, but I have googled this to death already, with zero luck.

 

 

 

 

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