uirc3 ===== The unethical IRC trinity. This project consists of an experimental IRC client, daemon, and bot. It's all you're ever going to need for chatting. All of them have these potentially interesting properties: - full IPv6 support - SSL/TLS support, including client certificates - minimal dependencies - very compact and easy to hack on degesch ------- The IRC client. I thought it would be interesting to build an IRC client on top of libreadline. At least it's way simpler than doing it in ncurses. The interface should feel familiar for weechat users. It's the youngest and largest of them all and currently under heavy development. kike ---- The IRC daemon. It mostly follows RFCs but it can't form networks consisting of multiple servers, or use any services packages, such as Atheme. (Mostly due to the protocol being incredibly ugly and tricky to implement correctly, with the poor quality of the RFCs not helping much). It is designed to be used as a regular user application rather than a system daemon. It is complete enough to be useful but doesn't support online configuration changes or limits of almost any kind yet. Notable features: - SSL/TLS autodetection (why doesn't everyone have this?) - IRCop authentication through SSL/TLS client certificates - epoll support on Linux; it should be able to handle quite a number of users - partial IRCv3 support ZyklonB ------- The IRC bot. It builds upon the concept of my other VitaminA IRC bot. The main characteristic of these two bots is that they run plugins as coprocesses, which allows for enhanced reliability and programming language freedom. While originally intended to be a simple C99 rewrite of the original bot, which was written in the GNU dialect of AWK, it fairly quickly became a playground where I added everything that seemed nice. Notable features: - resilient against crashes, server disconnects and timeouts - SOCKS support (even though socksify can add that easily to any program) Building -------- Build dependencies: CMake, pkg-config, help2man, awk, sh, liberty (included) Runtime dependencies: openssl, curses (degesch), readline or libedit >= 2013-07-12 (degesch) $ git clone https://github.com/pjanouch/uirc3.git $ git submodule init $ git submodule update $ mkdir build $ cd build $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \ -DWANT_READLINE=ON -DWANT_LIBEDIT=OFF $ make To install the application, you can do either the usual: # make install Or you can try telling CMake to make a package for you. For Debian it is: $ cpack -G DEB # dpkg -i uirc3-*.deb Note that for versions of CMake before 2.8.9, you need to prefix cpack with `fakeroot' or file ownership will end up wrong. Running ------- `degesch' has in-program configuration. Just run it and type "/help". For the rest you might want to generate a configuration file: $ zyklonb --write-default-config $ kike --write-default-config After making any necessary edits to the file (there are comments to aid you in doing that), simply run the appropriate program with no arguments: $ zyklonb $ kike `ZyklonB' stays running in the foreground, therefore I recommend launching it inside a Screen or tmux session. `kike', on the other hand, immediately forks into the background. Use something like `killall' if you want to terminate it. Client Certificates ------------------- `kike' uses SHA1 fingerprints of SSL client certificates to authenticate users. To get the fingerprint from a certificate file in the required form, use: $ openssl x509 -in public.pem -outform DER | sha1sum Contributing and Support ------------------------ Use this project's GitHub to report any bugs, request features, or submit pull requests. If you want to discuss this project, or maybe just hang out with the developer, feel free to join me at irc://anathema.irc.so, channel #anathema. Disclaimer ---------- I am not an antisemitist, I'm just being an offensive asshole with the naming. And no, I'm not going to change the names. License ------- `uirc3' is written by Přemysl Janouch <p.janouch@gmail.com>. You may use the software under the terms of the ISC license, the text of which is included within the package, or, at your option, you may relicense the work under the MIT or the Modified BSD License, as listed at the following site: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html