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miniircd -- A (very) simple Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server
============================================================
Description
-----------
miniircd is a small and limited IRC server written in Python. Despite its size,
it is a functional alternative to a full-blown ircd for private or internal
use. Installation is simple; no configuration is required.
Features
--------
* Knows about the basic IRC protocol and commands.
* Easy installation.
* Basic SSL support.
* No configuration.
* No ident lookup (so that people behind firewalls that filter the ident port
without sending NACK can connect without long timeouts).
* Reasonably secure when used with --chroot and --setuid.
Limitations
-----------
* Can't connect to other IRC servers.
* Only knows the most basic IRC commands.
* No IRC operators.
* No channel operators.
* No user or channel modes except channel key.
* No reverse DNS lookup.
* No other mechanism to reject clients than requiring a password.
Requirements
------------
Python 2.6 or newer. Get it at http://www.python.org. Python 3 is currently not
supported.
Installation
------------
None. Just run "./miniircd --help" (or "python miniircd --help") to get some
help.
Using --chroot and --setuid
---------------------------
In order to use the --chroot or --setuid options, you must be using an OS that
supports these functions (most \*nixes), and you must start the server as root.
These options limit the daemon process to a small subset of the filesystem,
running with the privileges of the specified user (ideally unprivileged)
instead of the user who launched miniircd.
To create a new chroot jail for miniircd, edit the Makefile and change JAILDIR
and JAILUSER to suit your needs, then run ``make jail`` as root. If you have a
motd file or an SSL pem file, you'll need to put them in the jail as well:
# cp miniircd.pem motd.txt /var/jail/miniircd
Remember to specify the paths for --state-dir, --log-dir, --motd and
--ssl-pem-file from within the jail, e.g.:
# miniircd --state-dir=/ --log-dir=/ --motd=/motd.txt --setuid=nobody \
--ssl-pem-file=/miniircd.pem --chroot=/var/jail/miniircd
Make sure your jail is writable by whatever user/group you are running the
server as. Also, keep your jail clean. Ideally it should only contain the files
mentioned above and the state/log files from miniircd. You should **not** place
the miniircd script itself, or any executables, in the jail. In the end it
should look something like this:
# ls -alR /var/jail/miniircd
.:
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody root 4096 Jun 10 16:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 10 18:40 ..
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 26 Jun 10 16:20 #channel
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 1414 Jun 10 16:51 #channel.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 16:19 dev
-rw-r----- 1 rezrov nobody 5187 Jun 9 22:25 ircd.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 rezrov nobody 17 Jun 9 22:26 motd.txt
./dev:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 16:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 nobody root 4096 Jun 10 16:20 ..
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jun 10 16:16 null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 9 Jun 10 16:19 urandom
License
-------
GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
Primary author
--------------
- Joel Rosdahl <joel@rosdahl.net>
Contributors
------------
- Alex Wright
- Jan Fuchs
- Leandro Lucarella
- Martin Maney
- Matt Behrens
- Michael Rene Wilcox
- Ron Fritz
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