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<h2>ProFTPD module <code>mod_wrap2_sql</code></h2>
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This <code>mod_wrap2</code> submodule is contained in the
<code>mod_wrap2_sql.c</code> file, and is not compiled by default. See the
<code>mod_wrap2</code> <a href="mod_wrap2.html#Installation">installation</a>
instructions.

This submodule provides the SQL database &quot;driver&quot; for storing
IP/DNS-based access control information in SQL tables.

<h2>Author</h2>

Please contact TJ Saunders &lt;tj at castaglia.org&gt; with any
questions, concerns, or suggestions regarding this module.

<hr><h2><a name="SQLTables">SQL Access Tables</a></h2>
The <code>mod_wrap2_sql</code> module supports the &quot;sql&quot; string
for the source-type parameter of the
<a href="mod_wrap2.html#WrapUserTables"><code>WrapUserTables</code></a>,
<a href="mod_wrap2.html#WrapGroupTables"><code>WrapGroupTables</code></a>,
and
<a href="mod_wrap2.html#WrapTables"><code>WrapTables</code></a>,
configuration directives. If the &quot;sql&quot; source-type is used,
then the source-info parameter must be as described below. Note
that support for SQL-based access tables requires the use of
<code>mod_sql</code>.

<code>mod_wrap2_sql</code> requires two to four SQL-related configuration
directives: <code>SQLConnectInfo</code>, and two, possibly four,
<code>SQLNamedQuery</code> directives. The <code>SQLConnectInfo</code> is
necessary to allow the module to connect to the SQL database. The other
directives define the SQL queries that will be used by <code>mod_wrap2</code>
for its retrieval operations involving access data.

When using SQL tables and <code>mod_sql</code>, the access tables should appear
in the database named by the <code>SQLConnectInfo</code> directive, which
will probably also contain the authentication information tables. This way
your <code>proftpd</code>-specific tables are kept together. Also, it is
probably better to use a connection policy of PERSESSION, otherwise there will
be more overhead associated with each new connection made to the database for
each transaction.

One <code>SQLNamedQuery</code> is needed to <code>SELECT</code> access
information from the allow table, and one to <code>SELECT</code> access
information from the deny table. These queries should return a list of words,
where each word is a host name, host address, pattern, or wildcard (see
<a href="mod_wrap2.html#AccessRules">here</a> for how these things are
defined). Failure to define either of these <code>SQLNamedQuery</code>
directives will cause an error during <code>mod_wrap2_sql</code>'s operation.

Optionally, other <code>SQLNamedQuery</code> directives can be defined
to look up access <a href="mod_wrap2.html#AccessOptions">options</a> from
the allow and deny tables.

For SQL tables, the format for the <code>WrapUserTables</code>,
<code>WrapGroupTables</code>, and <code>WrapTables</code> directives is:
<pre>
 WrapTables sql:/allow-<code>SQLNamedQuery</code>[/allow-options-<code>SQLNamedQuery</code>] \
 sql:deny-<code>SQLNamedQuery</code>[/deny-options-<code>SQLNamedQuery</code>]
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where the allow-options-<code>SQLNamedQuery</code> and
deny-options-<code>SQLNamedQuery</code> portions of the string are
optional.

SQL Access Tables Example 
Here are example <code>SQLNamedQuery</code> directives to help demonstrate
how the <code>mod_sql</code> hooks are used by <code>mod_wrap2</code>.
These example SQL statements assume the existence of two tables: a
<code>wrapallow</code> table that defines allowed clients, and a
<code>wrapdeny</code> table that defines the denied clients.

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 SQLNamedQuery get-allowed-clients SELECT "allowed FROM wrapallow WHERE name = '%{0}'"
 SQLNamedQuery get-denied-clients SELECT "denied FROM wrapdeny WHERE name = '%{0}'"
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These define the SQL statements to return the required list of words. The
<code>%{0}</code> meta sequence will be substituted with the name being looked
up (e.g. user name for <code>WrapUserTables</code>, primary group name
for <code>WrapGroupTables</code>, or the empty string for
<code>WrapTables</code>).

If the administrator wants to make use of access options, then queries for
those options would need to be similarly defined:
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 SQLNamedQuery get-allowed-options SELECT "options FROM wrapallow WHERE name = '%{0}'"
 SQLNamedQuery get-denied-options SELECT "options FROM wrapdeny WHERE name = '%{0}'"
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Now, using the above defined queries, the table configuration directives would
be:
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 # Access tables for users (with options)
 WrapUserTables user1,user2 sql:/get-allowed-clients/get-allowed-options \
 sql:/get-denied-clients/get-denied-options

# Access tables for groups (with options).  Note that this directive
  # uses the same SELECT queries used for looking up users.  If group
  # access information is in a different table, then separate group-specific
  # SQLNamedQuery directives will need to be used.
  WrapGroupTables group1,group2 sql:/get-allowed-clients/get-allowed-options \
    sql:/get-denied-clients/get-denied-options

# Access tables for everyone else (without options)
 WrapTables sql:/get-allowed-clients sql:/get-denied-clients
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One thing to keep in mind, however, is that the <code>%{0}</code> part of an
SQL query will only be expanded with the client's <code>USER</code> argument
for <code>WrapUserTables</code> queries. For <code>WrapGroupTables</code>
queries, that <code>%{0}</code> will be expanded to contain the primary group
name of the connecting client's <code>USER</code>. For <code>WrapTables</code>
queries, an empty string is used. This means that the same query cannot
often be easily reused.

Example Schema 
Here are some example table schema for SQL-based access tables:
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 <li>Allow table 
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 CREATE TABLE wrapallow (
 name VARCHAR(30),
 allowed VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
 options VARCHAR(255)
 );

CREATE INDEX idx_wrapallow_name ON wrapallow.name;
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 </li>

<li>Deny table 
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 CREATE TABLE wrapdeny (
 name VARCHAR(30),
 denied VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL,
 options VARCHAR(255)
 );

CREATE INDEX idx_wrapdeny_name ON wrapdeny.name;
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 </li>
</ul>

When constructing the client and options lists to return to
<code>mod_wrap2</code>'s access control engine, <code>mod_wrap2_sql</code> will
parse each returned row separately, handling both comma- and space-limited
names in a row, into client list items. This means that the administrator can
store multiple client and option tokens in multiple rows, as in the above
schema, or the administrator can choose to store all of the clients and/or
options in a single row, in an appropriately formatted string.

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Author: $Author: castaglia $ 
Last Updated: $Date: 2013-05-12 23:13:43 $

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