March 2013 - ngIRCd Users - lists.barton.de

question about ngircd
by Michiel van Es 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Hello, I am using the latest ngircd on a raspberry pi (armhf) with Debian Wheezy. I was wondering if I can restrict the creation of rooms/channels in Ngircd? I've created 2 rooms/channels which I want to be the only one available and that other people can only use those 2 rooms and can not create their own. Is that possible? Thanks for any help. Michiel

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fcntl.h: present but cannot be compiled
by Aaron Walker 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Hello, I'm trying to configure/build ngircd on AIX 6.1, and got the following error. Reporting it because it asked me nicely. root@r59s2h4:/twiki/ngircd/ngircd-20.2 # ./configure checking build system type... powerpc-ibm-aix6.1.0.0 checking host system type... powerpc-ibm-aix6.1.0.0 checking for a BSD-compatible install... ./install-sh -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... ./install-sh -c -d checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... no checking for nawk... nawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... -std=gnu99 checking for gcc -std=gnu99 option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) -std=gnu99 checking for gawk... (cached) nawk checking whether ln -s works... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking for function prototypes... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -std=gnu99 -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /opt/freeware/bin/grep checking for egrep... /opt/freeware/bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... no checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking whether gcc -std=gnu99 accepts -fstack-protector... no checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking fcntl.h usability... no checking fcntl.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: fcntl.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: fcntl.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: fcntl.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: fcntl.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" configure: WARNING: fcntl.h: proceeding with the compiler's result configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------------------- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to ngircd-ml(a)ngircd.barton.de ## configure: WARNING: ## ----------------------------------------- ## checking for fcntl.h... no configure: error: required C header missing! Merci, Aaron

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A little pam help?
by Doug 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Hi, I was wondering if someone could shed some light on how to use PAM with ngircd? I've set PAM = yes, and PAMIsOptional = no, but I'm kind of fuzzy on how this is supposed to work. The client connects with a nick and username, (in this case my username for both, douglasl). The server rejects the connection, and logs: [18632:6 5] Accepted connection 7 from 127.0.0.1:59814 on socket 6. [18906:3 5] PAM: Error on "douglasl" (douglasl!~douglasl@localhost): Authentication failure [18632:3 5] User "douglasl!~douglasl@localhost" rejected (connection 7): Bad password! [18632:6 5] Shutting down connection 7 (Bad password) with localhost:59814 ... [18632:5 5] Client "douglasl" unregistered (connection 7): Bad password [18632:6 5] Connection 7 with localhost:59814 closed (in: 0.1k, out: 0.0k). Riiight. I'm pretty sure I've got pam working, because I can use pamtester well enough: ~/ngircd/pamtester-0.1.2/src# ./pamtester login douglasl authenticate Password: pamtester: successfully authenticated So, the question is, how the irc client supposed to be supplying the password for the user? The raw commands to the server after connect are PASS / NICK / USER, which sound like they should be all I need. :/ Any ideas? ~ Doug.

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