A shell script to automated the creation of the XML and zip file as per the Chase Paymentech specification

chase-paymentech-password-reset.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Payment tech sftp password reset file.  
# Script creates password and zip file based of PaymentTech specification
# Chase should be ashamed of themselves for this
# Author : Chris Maggiulli

FILENAME="password_`date +'%y%m%d'`000.xml"
ZIPNAME="password_`date +'%y%m%d'`000.zip"
# Not using /dev/random so this can be ran by less privileged users
PASSWORD=`openssl rand -base64 30 | tr -dc 'A-Z0-9' | fold -w 8 | head -n 1`

touch $FILENAME
echo "<passwordRequest>" >> $FILENAME
echo "<userID>REDACTED</userID>" >> $FILENAME
echo "<password>`echo $PASSWORD`</password>" >> $FILENAME
echo "</passwordRequest>" >> $FILENAME

zip $ZIPNAME $FILENAME

cat $FILENAME

rm -f $FILENAME