ngIRCd Users September 2014

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ngIRCd 22~rc1
by Alexander Barton 11 Oct '14

11 Oct '14

Hello again! I tagged the first release candidate for our upcoming next „feature release“ of ngIRCd today: ngIRCd Release 22~rc1. There have been more than 100 individual commits since ngIRCd 21, the NEWS file lists 20 new „features“, please pick your favorite yourself: • Sync "except lists" between servers: Up to now, ban, invite, and G-Line lists have been synced between servers while linking -- but obviously nobody noticed that except list have been missing ever since. Until now. Thanks to "j4jackj", who reported this issue in #ngircd. • Allow longer user names (up to 63 characters) for authentication. • Increase MAX_SERVERS from 16 to 64: There are installations out there that would like to configure more than 16 links per server, so increase this limit. Best would be to get rid of MAX_SERVERS altogether and make if fully dynamic, but start with this quick and dirty hack ... • Test suite/platformtest.sh: Detect when tests have been skipped. • Allow "DefaultUserModes" to set all possible modes, including modes only settable by IRC Operators. • Implement user mode "F": "relaxed flood protection". Clients with mode "F" set are allowed to rapidly send data to the daemon. This mode is only settable by IRC Operators and can cause problems in the network -- so be careful and only set it on "trusted" clients! User mode "F" is used by Bahamut for this purpose, for example. • Use server password when PAM is compiled in but disabled. • Streamline punctuation of log messages. • Return ISUPPORT(005) numerics on "VERSION". This is how ircd-seven, Charybdis, Hybrid, and InspIRCd behave, for example. • configure: Only link "contrib/Debian" if it exists, which isn't the case on "VPATH builds", for example. • Show the account name in WHOIS. This uses the same numeric as Charybdis and ircu families: WHOISLOGGEDIN(330). • Pattern matching: Remove "range matching" in our pattern matching code using the "[...]" syntax, because [ and ] are valid characters in nick names and one has to quote them currently using the "\" character, which is quite unexpected for users. • platformtest.sh: New option "-x", don't regenerate build system and allow using separate source and build trees. • Test suite: explicitly enable glibc memory checking. • Make "MODE -k" handling more robust and compatible, send "fake '*' key" in all replies. • portabtest: Actually test the functions snprintf(), strlcpy(), strlcat(), and vsnprintf() for correctness, not only existence (which was quite useless, because if they weren't available, the program could not have been linked at all ...). • Implement new configuration option "Network": it is used to set the (completely optional) "network name", to which this instance of the daemon belongs. When set, this name is used in the ISUPPORT(005) numeric which is sent to all clients connecting to the server after logging in. • Update doc/Platforms.txt. • Various code cleanups, remove unused code, streamline error handling. Remove all imp.h and exp.h header files, support non-standard vsnprintf() return codes, and fix some K&R C portability issues. Streamline DEBUG_ARRAY, DEBUG_BUFFER, DEBUG_IO, DEBUG_ZIP definitions. • Increase penalty time to 10 seconds when handling OPER commands with an invalid password. Please test this release candidate thoroughly and report all glitches, problems, errors, and regressions you encounter! Best is to file bugs and feature requests here: ngIRCd Bug Tracker: <http://ngircd.barton.de/bugzilla/> You can find more information on our homepage at <http://ngircd.barton.de/> and its mirror <http://http://ngircd.mirror.3rz.org/>. The primary download locations is: • <http://ngircd.barton.de/pub/ngircd/> And as usual: a big THANKS to all users, bug reporters, contributors, packagers, and supporters! Have fun! Alex

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Custom PAM module
by Alexey Kuznetsov 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hello! I'm looking forward to use ngIRCd on my Debian box. I need simple as possible ircd with one feature: allow users to protect his nick names from overtaking. It can be done with NICKSERV bots. Unfortunately Debian has no nickserv services packaged yet and this is not an option. I see ngIRCd has PAM module authentication support which can help me a lot. I can configure ngIRCd to use PAM but I do not know how to allow non registered users to join using PAM. Can you suggest PAM configuration file, which is going to allow ALL users to connect, but ask for password for registered users on system (or pwd file). This will allow me to protect registred names and allow guests to connect to the server. That would be nice if this will appears in ngIRCd documentation as well. -- AK

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Porting over an old ircd config to ngircd
by Henry Podham 14 Sep '14

14 Sep '14

Hi all, I'm trying to switch my very old IRC server from using ircd (from 10 years ago) to the newer ngircd. I've been mulling over the old ircd config trying to understand the Y, C and H lines that were put there long ago. However, I'm having trouble figuring out how to translate all these old config lines into the ngircd format. Has anyone else ported over old configs understand them enough to provide some guidance? Thanks, Henry

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ngIRCd 21.1 with gcc + musl-libc
by Götz Hoffart 13 Sep '14

13 Sep '14

ngIRCd 21.1 has been configured with the following options: Host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Compiler: /usr/local/musl/bin/musl-gcc -std=gnu99 Compiler flags: -g -O2 -pipe -W -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -fstack-protector -DSYSCONFDIR='"$(sysconfdir)"' -DDOCDIR='"$(docdir)"' 'ngircd' binary: /usr/local/sbin Configuration file: /usr/local/etc Manual pages: /usr/local/share/man Documentation: /usr/local/share/doc/ngircd Syslog support: yes Enable debug code: no zlib compression: no IRC sniffer: no Use TCP Wrappers: no Strict RFC mode: no IDENT support: no IRC+ protocol: yes IPv6 protocol: no I/O backend: epoll(), select() PAM support: no SSL support: no libiconv support: no the executable works ("runs") as expected --+ tests run successfully ("make check") --+ | ngIRCd compiles ("make") --+ | | ./configure works --+ | | | | | | | Platform Compiler ngIRCd Date Tester C M T R * --------------------------- ------------ ---------- -------- -------- - - - - - x86_64/unknown/linux-gnu gcc 4.4.5 21.1 14-09-13 goetz Y Y Y Y 1 $ uname -a Linux s1.hoffart.de 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jul 12 16:47:57 UTC 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/debian_version 6.0.10 Grüße Götz

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username length
by Marco Schirrmeister 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

Hello, the username length is set to 20 in the source code. (defines.h CLIENT_USER_LEN) I need to use authentication on our irc server. But unfortunately our user id that we can use is the email address. There is no other shorter uid yet. The email addresses are of course longer then 20 for most of the users. Do you see a problem of increasing this value to 50? Except that max messages length will be shorter. I mean if I would change it, do other parts of the code need to be changed? Or could there maybe strange problems in whatever cases? I tested it and it works in general, but I still wanted to ask. Thanks Marco

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ngircd servers connection
by Иван Дементьев 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

Dear Alex, Is it possible to connect couple of ngircds using '/connect <IP-address>' command when you are IRCOP? I tried such command in irc-client (Xchat): /connect 192.168.1.2 /connect 192.168.1.2 6667 In both cases I saw message: ' 192.168.1.2 : No such server ' In configuration file I have no any [Server] sections except default where all directives are commented. Hmm... config file is fully default actually :) -- Thank you Ivan Dementev

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