Subj : Re: MBSE + Virtualmin
To   : Vince Coen
From : James Digriz
Date : Mon Apr 09 2018 12:49:07

Vince Coen wrote to James Digriz:
VC> Hello James!
VC> 
VC> Sunday April 08 2018 17:06, you wrote to All:
VC> 
VC>  > I use Virtualmin GPL for my web hosting panel, so I thought I'd try
VC>  > integrating
VC>  >  it with the MBSE setup on this node. I had to delete mbse and my
                                                             ^^^^
                                                           user mbse

VC>  > users, and the bbs group temporarily, then delete the domain in
VC>  > Virtualmin and recreate it, then recreate the MBSE users and group,
                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                                     unix users and group


VC>  > but everything seems to be working so far, at least for mail, after  I
VC>  > fixed some permission. Still working on the web server and ftp setup,
VC>  > but that doesn't look like much of a problem. I do have
VC>  > $MBSE_ROOT=/home/mbse, and linked Virtualmin's homes directory
VC>  > to /home/mbse/home.
VC> 
VC>  > Anyone else tried this?
VC> 
VC> 
VC> For interest to all :
VC> 
VC> If using the althernative install directory such as using ./configure
VC> --PREFIX=/home/mbse
VC> 
VC> The bbs will install into that directory BUT the SETUP.sh script is not 
VC> changed
VC> and will be wrong and so you will have to manually change the path used
VC> e.g., MHOME=/opt/mbse
VC>  to =/home/mbse
VC> 
VC> You must do this before using otherwise the users created will have 
VC> incorrect
VC> settings and will have to manually change the mbse, bbs users that it 
VC> creates.
VC> 
VC> Would be nice if the configure script does this but . . .
VC> 
VC> 
VC> Vince
VC> 
VC> --- Mageia Linux v5.1/Mbse v1.0.7.6/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715
VC>  * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)
VC> 

Right, should have mentioned that. Thanks, Vince. 

I should also note that I ended up with UID's and GID's both =${USER}, not
${USER}.BBS as a I believe MBSE expects. Doing more testing and checking today
to make sure there aren't any surprises, or corrections needed, there.        

    Greetings, James Digriz
    email: jbdigriz@bbs.dragonsweb.org

--- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.4 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
 * Origin: DragonsWeb Labs  (1:123/755)

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