X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.ru/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=87824263e449cc109f01eb4058f9839437942d8d;hb=b67868201041359c456457b62910866a8e072b2b;hp=c69f8d23ac179934749d616e6264a89d779f41cf;hpb=6a0a2a0ce13e7fe6f3b9a7acb45c047199bab13e;p=goircd.git diff --git a/README b/README index c69f8d2..8782426 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,10 +1,6 @@ goircd -- minimalistic simple Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server ============================================================== -SYNOPSIS - -goircd is very simple IRC server, written on Go. - DESCRIPTION goircd is very simple IRC server, written on Go. @@ -14,7 +10,6 @@ It does not aim to replace full featured mass scalable IRC networks: * It can not connect to other servers. Just standalone installation * It has few basic IRC commands * There is no support for channel operators, modes, votes, invites - and so on * No ident lookups, reverse DNS queries But it has some convincing features: @@ -23,23 +18,24 @@ But it has some convincing features: * Single executable binary * No configuration file, just few command line arguments * IPv6 out-of-box support +* Ability to listen on TLS-capable ports * Optional channel logging to plain text files * Optional permanent channel's state saving in plain text files (so you can reload daemon and all channels topics and keys won't disappear) +* Optional ability to authenticate users by nickname and password Some remarks and recommendations related to it's simplicity: * Use either nohup or similar tools to daemonize it -* Use either crywrap or similar tools for TLS-capable connections * Just plain logging on stderr, without syslog support SUPPORTED IRC COMMANDS -* NICK/USER during registration workflow +* PASS/NICK/USER during registration workflow * PING/PONGs * NOTICE/PRIVMSG -* MOTD, LUSERS, WHO, WHOIS, QUIT +* AWAY, MOTD, LUSERS, WHO, WHOIS, VERSION, QUIT * LIST, JOIN, TOPIC, +k/-k channel MODE USAGE @@ -55,6 +51,29 @@ Just execute goircd daemon. It has following optional arguments: * -statedir: directory where all channels states will be saved and loaded during startup. If omitted, then states will be lost after daemon termination +* -tlsbind/-pem: enable TLS, specify address to listen on and path + to PEM file with certificate and private key +* -passwords: enable client authentication and specify path to + passwords file +* -verbose: increase log messages verbosity + +TLS + +If you specify -bind and -tlsbind simultaneously, then you will have +both raw and encrypted listening sockets. You can use -bind "" to +disable raw socket. + +AUTHENTICATION + +You can turn on optional client authentication by preparing passwords +file and using the -passwords argument. Format of passwords file is: + + login1:password1\n + login2:password2\n + … + +You can force rereading of passwords file without server interruption by +sending HUP signal to him. LICENCE