Last update 06-Jun-2001

 

How to setup an FTP server to work with MBSE BBS.

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, mail and files will get lost! Note that this description is written for wu-ftpd, on your distribution there may be another ftpd installed. Don't use mbftpd yet!

The filestructure I used is as follows:

/var/spool/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.
               /mail/out			- Your default outbound
               |    /out.009			- Outbound Zone 9
               |    /inbound			- Inbound directory
               /raonly/upload			- Non-public download areas
               |      /sysop
               |      /logfiles
               /tic_queue			- Queue for .tic files.
In order to give DOS style names for fidonet sessions you must set the DOS path and Unix path in mbsetup (1.3.11 and 1.3.12) to "m:" and "/var/spool/mbse". Note that to get forwarding of .tic files to work the tic_queue must be a subdirectory of "/var/spool/mbse" too. You could actually use any drive letter for the DOS path.

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".

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 mbsebbs as their shell and this shell is not in the file /etc/shells 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.

Note the following directory permissions MUST BE SET!!!!::: See also the man pages for the DARPA ftpd server. 

Directory               	owner group mode perms
------------------------------- ----- ----- ---- ----------
/var/spool/mbse			mbse  bbs   0755 drwxr-xr-x
/var/spool/mbse/ftp		root  wheel 0555 dr-xr-xr-x
/var/spool/mbse/ftp/bin		root  wheel 0555 dr-xr-xr-x
/var/spool/mbse/ftp/bin/ls	root  bin   0111 ---x--x--x
/var/spool/mbse/ftp/etc		root  root  0555 dr-xr-xr-x
/var/spool/mbse/ftp/etc/passwd	root  root  0444 -r--r--r--
/var/spool/mbse/ftp/etc/group	root  root  0444 -r--r--r--
/var/spool/mbse/ftp/pub		mbse  bbs   0775 drwxrwxr-x
/var/spool/mbse/ftp/incoming   	ftp   users 0755 drwxr-xr-x
Note that all subdirectories under ../pub also must be owned by mbse and group bbs and have at least mode 775 as long as it are real bbs subdirectories. The bbs will maintain these directories automatic and must have the rights to do so.

In the /var/spool/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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