SSL ircd

David Richards DavidR at eurosoft-uk.com
Thu Apr 26 10:58:31 BST 2001


the only way to secure ircd, is to make every user when connecting to give a
password which the admin has set in the config file(ircd.conf) 
i think they are in the I: lines of the file.

david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Ford [mailto:neil at ourshack.com]
> Sent: 26 April 2001 10:53
> To: Dan Cuthbert
> Cc: freebsd-users at uk.freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: SSL ircd
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 10:03:00AM +0100, Dan Cuthbert wrote:
> > Hiya all
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a working\decent ircd that uses SSL?
> > can anyone give me any pointers to one?
> > 
> IRC is inherintly insecure, why would you want an ircd that 
> used SSL? I can
> imagine a need if yo wanted to run a private IRC server but 
> then the way to do
> it is either to tunnel the connections over ssh or to ssh to 
> the machine 
> runnig the ircd and only allow localhost connections.
> 
> Neil.
> 
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