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<h5>Last update 27-Jan-2002</h5>
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<H1>How to setup an FTP server to work with MBSE BBS.</H1>
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In order to let MBSE BBS and your FTP server to both function together you must
organize a special file structure. Note that even if you don't setup an FTP
server you must still create a structure like this for the fidonet mailer,
if you don't, <strong>mail and files will get lost!</strong>
Note that this description is written for wu-ftpd, on your distribution there
may be another ftpd installed. <font color=red><u>Don't use mbftpd yet!</u></font>
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<H4>The filestructure I used is as follows:</H4>
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/opt/mbse/ftp/pub/dos_util/dos_4dos - Public download areas
| | | /dos_disk
| | | /dos_file
| | /virnet/mcafee
| | /win16
| | /win32
| /bin - FTP bin directory
| /etc - FTP etc directory
| /incoming - FTP public upload.
/var/bso/outbound - Your default outbound
| /outbound.009 - Outbound Zone 9
| /inbound - Inbound directory
/private/upload - Non-public download areas
| /sysop
| /logfiles
/tic_queue - Queue for .tic files.
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If another DOS/Windows style mailer has access to your MBSE outbound you must
set the DOS path and Unix path in <strong>mbsetup</strong> (1.4.12 and 1.4.13) to
<strong>"m:"</strong> and <strong>"/opt/mbse"</strong>. Note that to get
forwarding of .tic files to work the <strong>tic_queue</strong> must be a
subdirectory of "/opt/mbse" too. You could actually use any drive letter for
the DOS path.<BR>
This means that a fidonet file attach from the dos_4dos public download
directory shall get the subject "M:\FTP\PUB\DOS_UTIL\DOS_4DOS\COMMAND.ZIP".
Only use this if you need it!
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As you can see, anonymous ftp users can't get to the mail, non-public
downloads etc. Normally, your BBS users have unix accounts and will be able
to do a ftp login and access any directory on your system. Because the bbs
users have <b>mbsebbs</b> as their shell and this shell is not in the file
<b>/etc/shells</b> the ftp daemon will not let the bbs users in. So even
your own bbs users must login as anonymous to get files from the ftp server.
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Note the following directory permissions MUST BE SET!!!!::: See also
the man pages for the DARPA ftpd server.
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Directory owner group mode perms
------------------------------- ----- ----- ---- ----------
/opt/mbse mbse bbs 0755 drwxr-xr-x
/opt/mbse/ftp root wheel 0555 dr-xr-xr-x
/opt/mbse/ftp/bin root wheel 0555 dr-xr-xr-x
/opt/mbse/ftp/bin/ls root bin 0111 ---x--x--x
/opt/mbse/ftp/etc root root 0555 dr-xr-xr-x
/opt/mbse/ftp/etc/passwd root root 0444 -r--r--r--
/opt/mbse/ftp/etc/group root root 0444 -r--r--r--
/opt/mbse/ftp/pub mbse bbs 0775 drwxrwxr-x
/opt/mbse/ftp/incoming ftp users 0755 drwxr-xr-x
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Note that all subdirectories under ../pub also must be owned by <strong>mbse
</strong> and group <strong>bbs</strong> and have at least mode 755 as long
as it are real bbs subdirectories. The bbs will maintain these directories
automatic and must have the rights to do so.
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In the /opt/mbse/ftp/etc/group file, add the group bbs so that your directory
listings give the proper groupname instead of a number.
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