Hello Glen!
Am 19.01.2007 um 02:04 schrieb Glen Stewart:
So my question to the ngIRCd community & author is whether there are plans, or interest in an authentication hook being added. And, whether this kind of approach would be incompatible with standards-compliant IRC clients.
There are plans to add an "authentication daemon" interface to the ngIRCd. I'm already working on this, but don't expect results to early due to lack of time on my side :-/
The idea is to let ngIRCd call this "authd" each time a user connects (after USER/NICK/PASS commands) and to let this daemon decide whether this client is allowed to connect or not. The "authd" could be implemented to use PAM, do SQL requests directly or whatever. The "authd" interface will be fairly simple -- in my dreams ;-)
Regards Alex