X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.ru/?p=goircd.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=e9c5eb110a785cce6b2886f68a83cf0ec7dfae63;hp=03f31d88485e3ad1b1af0c04d05951c3c0731459;hb=b7fb219307483d2c31b5dad1f559f325f2fd1a5e;hpb=afbf2b40d4f5accd041a3052ab58718958c8da1c diff --git a/README b/README index 03f31d8..e9c5eb1 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,21 +1,17 @@ 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. -It is heavily inspired by miniircd daemon written on Python. +It was heavily inspired by miniircd daemon written on Python. +goircd is free software: see the file COPYING for copying conditions. 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 +* There is no support for channel operators, many modes, votes, invites +* No ident lookups But it has some convincing features: @@ -23,47 +19,84 @@ 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 +* Ability to additionally listen on TLS-capable ports +* Optional channels 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 -* Just plain logging on stderr, without syslog support +* Use daemontools to daemonize, setuid/gid it +* Just plaintext logging to stdout, without syslog support -- use + daemontool's multilog SUPPORTED IRC COMMANDS -* NICK/USER during registration workflow +* PASS/NICK/USER during registration workflow * PING/PONGs -* NOTICE/PRIVMSG -* MOTD, LUSERS, WHO, WHOIS, QUIT +* NOTICE/PRIVMSG, ISON +* AWAY, MOTD, LUSERS, NAMES, WHO, WHOIS, VERSION, WALLOPS, QUIT * LIST, JOIN, TOPIC, +k/-k channel MODE USAGE Just execute goircd daemon. It has following optional arguments: -* -hostname: hostname to show for client's connections -* -bind: address to bind to (:6667 be default) -* -motd: absolute path to MOTD file. It is reread every time MOTD is - requested -* -logdir: directory where all channels messages will be saved. If - omitted, then no logs will be kept -* -statedir: directory where all channels states will be saved and - loaded during startup. If omitted, then states will be - lost after daemon termination -* -tls_key/-tls_cert: enable TLS and specify key and certificate file -* -verbose: increase log messages verbosity + -hostname: hostname to show for client's connections + -bind: address to bind to (:6667 by default) + -cloak: cloak user's host with the given hostname + -motd: absolute path to MOTD file. It is reread every time + MOTD is requested + -logdir: directory where all channels messages will be saved. If + omitted, then no logs will be kept + -statedir: directory where all channels states will be saved and + loaded during startup. If omitted, then states will be + lost after daemon termination + -tlsbind: enable TLS, specify address to listen on and path + -tlspem: to PEM file with certificate and private key + -passwd: enable client authentication and specify path to + passwords file + -timestamped: enabled timestamps for stderr messages + -verbose: increase verbosity + -debug: also show traffic messages + -perm-state-dir: permission (before umask) for newly created state directory +-perm-state-file: permission (before umask) for newly created state file + -perm-log-file: permission (before umask) for newly created log file + +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:hex(sha256(password1))\n + login2:hex(sha256(password2))\n + ... + +You can get hashed password value using: echo -n password | sha256 + +LOG FILES + +Log files are not opened all the time, but only during each message +saving. That is why you can safely rename them for rotation purposes. + +STATE FILES + +Room's state is created/saved when either topic or key is set. State is +a directory (room's name) with "topic" and "key" plaintext files. LICENCE This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or -any later version. +the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of