On 10 Jan 2025, digimaus said the following...

 di> For my system under Slackware Linux, I create a special user for the node
 di> using FTP that has no login capability.  I set them up to have an inbound
 di> and outbound directory.

 di> Look under "8. Directory session".  It shows how to set the node's
 di> internal set up using proftpd.

I opted for proftpd as well and use its "virtual user" functionality.


With hpt I just need to tell it to put everything in a filebox for that node or
point:

link Test Node
aka 618:400/23
ouraka 618:400/1
packer none
password <p@$$w0rd>
flavour hold
accessgrp C
filebox /home/ubuntu/fido/filebox/micronet_z618n400n23/out
fileboxalways on
tickerpacktobox on

The only "gotcha" is for some reason hpt will only put echomail, tic files &
their associated files in the filebox.  Netmail is still packed to the regular
outbound, but it's easy enough to watch for those files and move them to the
filebox, e.g:
[ -f ~/fido/outbound.26a/01900017.hut ] && mv  ~/fido/outbound.26a/01900017.hut 
~/fido/filebox/micronet_z618n400n23/out/$(gnmsgid).pkt


The ftp home directory is (chroot'ed to) ~/fido/filebox/micronet_z618n400n23,
hpt puts everything in ./out and I link ./in to hpt's secure inbound.

I use .ftpaccess files to make sure they can't write to ./ or ./out (but can
delete files from ./out).  For ./in I make sure they can't see or read any files
but are able up upload (but not overwrite) files.

I still need to find a way to create a semaphore file when someone logs out of
proftd.  There is an "ExecOnExit" but these are limited to the user's chrooted
path.


Jay

... Did you know that nothing starts with N and ends with G?

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