<HTML> <HEAD> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO 8859-1"> <META http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <META name="author" lang="en" content="Michiel Broek"> <META name="copyright" lang="en" content="Copyright Michiel Broek"> <META name="description" lang="en" content="MBSE BBS Manual"> <META name="keywords" lang="en" content="MBSE BBS, MBSE, BBS, manual, fido, fidonet, gateway, tosser, mail, tic, mailer"> <TITLE>Howto setup an FTP server to work with MBSE BBS.</TITLE> <LINK rel=stylesheet HREF="../manual.css"> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE> <h5>Last update 06-Jun-2001</h5> <P> <P> <H1>How to setup an FTP server to work with MBSE BBS.</H1> <P> 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> <P> <H4>The filestructure I used is as follows:</H4> <PRE> /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. </PRE> In order to give DOS style names for fidonet sessions you must set the DOS path and Unix path in <strong>mbsetup</strong> (1.3.11 and 1.3.12) to <strong>"m:"</strong> and <strong>"/var/spool/mbse"</strong>. Note that to get forwarding of .tic files to work the <strong>tic_queue</strong> must be a subdirectory of "/var/spool/mbse" too. You could actually use any drive letter for the DOS path. <P> 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". <P> 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. <P> Note the following directory permissions MUST BE SET!!!!::: See also the man pages for the DARPA ftpd server. <P> <PRE> 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 </PRE> Note that all subdirectories under ../pub also must be owned by <strong>mbse </strong> and group <strong>bbs</strong> 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. <P> 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. <P> <A HREF="index.htm"><IMG SRC="../images/b_arrow.gif" ALT="Back" Border="0" width="33" height="35"> Go Back</A> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>