How Do I Restrict Access to IRC Server

[Anthony Martinez]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:24:37PM -0500, Rachel Llorenna 
carved this out of pure phosphors:
> Pi,
> 
> The password doesn't need to be shared with all users in hybrid/7.1;
> you can set it up to continue searching in the next matching auth
> block in one of the directives (can't remember what it is now, take a
> look in the example.conf)
> 
> So, you can have multiple passwords for *@*, for example. I think
> that's what you were getting at.
> 

Ah. I hadn't tried using password= in auth's since 7.0.1. Enlightening!

> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:01:44 -0700, Pi <pi at pihost.us> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:54:34PM -0500, John.W.Hill at noaa.gov
> > carved this out of pure phosphors:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've been very pleased so far w/ircd-hybrid. The install and
> > > configuration went very smooth and it has been very reliable. Is there
> > > some way that I can set up ircd-hybrid so that it will spawn some sort
> > > of authentication process (login) and restrict client access to the
> > > server? Or, even restricting access on a channel basis would be fine
> > > too.  I cannot find a "docs" site for ircd-hybrid. The link from debian
> > > is dead. Thanks in advance for any help.
> > 
> > A few ideas:
> > 
> > You can do IP-based access control by putting a deny{} block for 0.0.0.0/0 and
> > then making a separate auth{} block that is [kgd]line_exempt for the IP/DNS
> > names you want to allow in.
> > 
> > You can also possibly set the ircd to listen on 127.0.0.1 only and give shell
> > accounts or use network-based auth like pam_ldap or NIS, then let users use
> > irssi/bitchx/epic.
> > 
> > Also, auth{} blocks can have a plain-text password associated with them,
> > disallowing access unless the password is provided, but it must be shared across
> > all users.
> > 
> > >
> > > John
> > 
> > Pi
> > 
> > --
> > /*
> >  *   Should be panic but... (Why are BSD people panic obsessed ??)
> >  */
> >         linux-2.0.38/net/ipv4/ip_fw.c
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Rachel Llorenna (frequency)

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