Hi,

I´m looking to set up a local IRC server on the latest Debian for me and some friends. I´d like to somehow restrict access to this server to only local *nix accounts.

I don´t want to make the server only accessible to users who are logged in over SSH. I also want to be able to use clients on our phones etc. I also don´t trust my friends completely, I don´t want them to be able to impersonate each other.

So, what I´m looking for is some basic auth on my IRC server, preferably something that hooks into the standard *nix accounts (via PAM?). I´ve searched around a bit, and the only things I came up with:

  • Make the server localhost only => then I won´t be able to use phone apps anymore.

  • Server password => this doesn´t solve the auth issue, my friends will still be able to impersonate each other.

  • Make the server localhost only and then let users connect via ZNC, which hooks into Cyrus SASL => this was a huge pain in the ass to set up, and still doesn´t work.

  • Do this via services somehow?

What would be the “correct” way to implement this?

  • WiseCookie69@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ahh, good old IRC. Look into something like InspIRCd. It should already allow you to restrict channel creation to registered accounts. Then combine that with something like Atheme or Anope IRC Services. I couldn’t find any PAM modules, but Atheme should at least support an external database (back in the day we used a mysql backend).