Setting up an IRC+cPanel box with freeBSD
Scott Mcintyre
Well this "guide" if you like, doesn't really have a purpose, it both shows you how to setup a basic irc box (just installing
oidentd), its mainly targeted towards installing cPanel on freeBSD.
I used freeBSD 5.4-RELEASE so you might not encounter problems I did.
firstly login to your server and we will just install cpanel straight away.
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mkdir /home/cpins
cd /home/cpins
wget http://layer1.cpanel.net/latest
sh latest
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This will take awhile so go grab a coffee. This will install everything for cPanel.
Once this is complete, go to WHM
http://yourip/whm
and login with username root and your root password. Now you will be prompted with the WHM setup screen. This is really
simple, just follow the onscreen instructions to setup whm. This will setup your server hostname,resolvers,nameservers and
so on.
Once this is done, you have done it. You have installed cPanel, but don't get your hopes up just yet. No doubt there will
be bugs, you are best to search google but I will go over what ones I encounter. If I do that is.
So straight off I am going to go test the account creation, go to Create A New Account in WHM, and input any domain you
want, for my example I just put google.com. After I hit created it created the account but returned a bind error. So we
have to fix this first.
I ran
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/scripts/fixndc
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Which returned
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Found key in named.conf ..
Found controls in named.conf ..
Found key in named.conf ..
Adding key...
Adding controls...
Restarting bind.....Waiting for named to restart..............finished.
named has failed, please contact the sysadmin (result was "named is not running").
Jun 7 14:03:26 serv named[52645]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -c /etc/namedb/named.conf
Jun 7 14:03:26 serv named[52645]: could not configure root hints from '/var/named/named.root': file not
found
Jun 7 14:03:26 serv named[52645]: loading configuration: file not found
Jun 7 14:03:26 serv named[52645]: exiting (due to fatal error)
Done
All fixed
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So I just created the /var/named/named.root file manually by using the touch command then I re-ran /scripts/fixndc this done
the job.
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serv# /scripts/fixndc
Found key in named.conf ..
Found controls in named.conf ..
Found key in named.conf ..
Adding key...
Adding controls...
Restarting bind.....Waiting for named to restart..............finished.
bind 53378 0.0 0.7 5240 3744 ?? Ss 2:09PM 0:00.04 /usr/sbin/named -u bind -c /etc/namedb/named.conf
named started ok
Jun 7 14:09:18 serv named[53378]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -c /etc/namedb/named.conf
Jun 7 14:09:18 serv named[53378]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Jun 7 14:09:18 serv named[53378]: zone 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA/IN: loading master file
/var/named/localhost.rev: file not found
Jun 7 14:09:18 serv named[53378]: zone
1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA/IN: loading master file
/var/named/localhost-v6.rev: file not found
Jun 7 14:09:18 serv named[53378]: zone
1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.INT/IN: loading master file
/var/named/localhost-v6.rev: file not found
Jun 7 14:09:18 serv named[53378]: running
Done
All fixed
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Now go back and terminate the test account and recreate it.
This time it created successfully.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Keeping Shell Access (y)
Copying skel files from /root/cpanel3-skel/ to /usr/home/google/
Using Freebsd Copy
/root/cpanel3-skel/public_html -> /usr/home/google/public_html
/root/cpanel3-skel/public_ftp -> /usr/home/google/public_ftp
Using redhat 6.x/freebsd support
Name Virtual Host already exists
Added Entries to httpd.conf (noip)
Bind reconfiguring on serv using rndc
Added Named File
Using Frontpage 5.x!
Starting install, port: 80.
Creating web http://www.google.com.
Chowning Content in service /.
Install completed.
Starting chown, port: 80, web: "/".
DocumentRoot: "/usr/home/google/public_html"
Setting Password
Frontpage passthough auth enabled!
Restarting apache
Ftp Password Files synced
Vhost Passwords synced
wwwacct creation finished
Account Creation Complete!!!
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Now we know account creation works, we can go on with setting up the server.
Well what I done was first configure SSHD. Please remember this is just how to setup the server as a basic server on freeBSD,
to really secure it you should read a freeBSD security guide.
Since im more of a pico guy, dont ask I have to install that first.
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Lets install it with
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cd /usr/ports/editors/pico && make && make install
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even when i typed pico i got command not found so you have to type rehash
anyway lets continue, edit sshd config and add the following
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pico /etc/ssh/sshd_config
Port 22
Protocol 2
SyslogFacility AUTH
LogLevel INFO
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Of course that is not all, but you get the idea, disable direct root login, forwarding, and so on.
Now its time to install oidentd, this is to use an ident on irc servers.
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mkdir /root/scott
cd /root/scott
wget
target="_blank">http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...td-2.0.7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf oidentd-2.0.7.tar.gz
rm -rf oidentd-2.0.7.tar.gz
cd oidentd-2.0.7
./configure
make
make install
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Now create a user for oidentd and disable shell access.
adduser
then go threw the settings.
for shell make sure you set nologin
Shell (sh csh tcsh bash bash jailshell noshell ftpsh nologin) [sh]: nologin
Make sure you set a secure password, ie zUaxe^xXalvYtBPlTo]ZP]iayFIsq
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Now create the config
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and put
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Configuration for oidentd
# see oidentd.conf(5)
#
default {
default {
allow spoof
allow spoof_all
allow spoof_privport
allow random
allow random_numeric
allow numeric
allow hide
}
}
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in it.
Now just start oidentd, please note you will have to change the config to sure yourself, such as spoofing.
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/usr/local/sbin/oidentd -u oidentd -g oidentd
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Oidentd should now be installed. All you have to do now is add users and set what shell access they have. I personally set
bash for each but I set permissions so they cannot access things they should not.
IE
chmod -R 770 /home/*
Then set permissions on binaries, and so on. Personally, I made a quick wget script, so maybe you can impliment it too.
First lets move the old binary to a random name, i choose ekigrowbwo
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mv wget ekigrowbwo
pico /usr/local/bin/wget
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and put this in it.
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#!/bin/bash
ME=`whoami`
TIME=`date`
DIR=`pwd`
echo "$TIME - $ME - $1 - >> $DIR" >> /usr/local/bin/wget.log
/usr/local/bin/ekigrowbwo $1
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you better create the wget.log
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touch /usr/local/bin/wget.log
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It will then log in the format,
time - user - what they downloaded - >> where it was saved.
Just repeat that process for fetch and so on, so it logs them all.
Well that is pretty much the server setup. This isn't really a main guide, it shows you how to setup cpanel on freebsd,
setup a basic irc server, although you still have a bit to do. It should get you on your way though.
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UPDATE
I had problems with mysql, mainly the mysql server, I fixed this by using.
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cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql40-server && make && make install
/scripts/fixmysql
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Any other bugs feel free to reply, I will post as I find them. other than that, so far cPanel seems to be working well, even
though I dont recommend using it for an irc server.
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