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<div align='right'><h5>Last update 03-Sep-2005</h5></div>
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<div align='center'><H1>How to setup an FTP server to work with MBSE BBS.</H1></div>
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In order to let MBSE BBS and your FTP server to both function together you must
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organize a special file structure. Note that even if you don't setup an FTP
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server you must still create a structure like this for the fidonet mailer,
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if you don't, <strong>mail and files will get lost!</strong>
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This description is written for <A HREF="http://www.proftpd.org" rel="nofollow">ProFTPD</A>,
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on your distribution there may be another ftpd installed.
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Read the section for the <A HREF="webserver.html">webserver</A> as well.
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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
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| | | /dos_disk
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| | | /dos_file
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| | /virnet/mcafee
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| | | /win16
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| | | /win32
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| | /css/files.css - Stylesheet for http download
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| /incoming - FTP public upload.
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/var/bso/outbound - Your default outbound
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| /outbound.009 - Outbound Zone 9
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/inbound - Inbound directory
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/private/upload - Non-public download areas
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| /sysop
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| /logfiles
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/tic_queue - Queue for .tic files.
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To let this work you need to change the default anonymous directory of the
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ftp server to /opt/mbse/pub. As root, edit /etc/passwd with the <b>vipw</b>
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command. Look for the entry of the ftp user and change his homedirectory to
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/opt/mbse/ftp. You may also use the command <b>usermod -d /opt/mbse/ftp ftp</b>
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to do the same. For a start the default configuration file for ProFTPD will do
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fine. If you want to let users upload into the incoming directory, you need to
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change /etc/proftpd.conf file to allow that.
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If another DOS/Windows style mailer has access to your MBSE outbound you must
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set the DOS path and Unix path in <strong>mbsetup</strong> (1.4.12 and 1.4.13) to
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<strong>"m:"</strong> and <strong>"/opt/mbse"</strong>. Note that to get
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forwarding of .tic files to work the <strong>tic_queue</strong> must be a
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subdirectory of "/opt/mbse" too. You could actually use any drive letter for
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the DOS path.<BR>
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This means that a fidonet file attach from the dos_4dos public download
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directory shall get the subject "M:\FTP\PUB\DOS_UTIL\DOS_4DOS\COMMAND.ZIP".
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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
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downloads etc. Normally, your BBS users have unix accounts and will be able
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to do a ftp login and access any directory on your system. Because the bbs
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users have <b>mbsebbs</b> as their shell and this shell is not in the file
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<b>/etc/shells</b> the ftp daemon will not let the bbs users in. So even
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your own bbs users must login as anonymous to get files from the ftp server.
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The following is a list of file permissions when using ProFTPD:
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Directory owner group mode perms
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------------------------------- ----- ----- ---- ----------
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/opt/mbse mbse bbs 0775 drwxrxxr-x
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/opt/mbse/ftp root root 0755 drxxr-xr-x
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/opt/mbse/ftp/pub mbse bbs 0755 drwxr-xr-x
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/opt/mbse/ftp/incoming ftp ftp 0755 drwxr-xr-x
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Note that all subdirectories under ../pub also must be owned by <strong>mbse
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</strong> and group <strong>bbs</strong> and have at least mode 755 as long
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as it are real bbs subdirectories. The bbs will maintain these directories
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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
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listings give the proper groupname instead of a number.
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If you want to increase the download counters when files are downloaded via ftp
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you must make sure that the ftp daemon logs the downloads to a <b>xferlog</b>
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file, for example /var/log/xferlog. This logfile must be readable by user mbse.
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Then in <b>mbsetup</b> menu 1.13.5 enter full filename and path to this logfile.
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The <b>mball</b> program will parse this file and increase the download counters
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for the files that are downloaded from the bbs.
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