# This tells ngIRCd to write its current process ID to a file.
# Note that the pidfile is written AFTER chroot and switching the
# user ID, e.g. the directory the pidfile resides in must be
- # writeable by the ngIRCd user and exist in the chroot directory.
+ # writable by the ngIRCd user and exist in the chroot directory.
;PidFile = /var/run/ngircd/ngircd.pid
# Ports on which the server should listen. There may be more than
[Options]
# Optional features and configuration options to further tweak the
- # behavior of ngIRCd. If you wan't to get started quickly, you most
+ # behavior of ngIRCd. If you want to get started quickly, you most
# probably don't have to make changes here -- they are all optional.
# Are remote IRC operators allowed to control this server, e.g.
# Set this hostname for every client instead of the real one.
# Please note: don't use the percentage sign ("%"), it is reserved for
# future extensions!
- ;CloakHost = irc.example.net
+ ;CloakHost = cloaked.host
+
+ # Use this hostname for hostname cloaking on clients that have the
+ # user mode "+x" set, instead of the name of the server.
+ # Please note: don't use the percentage sign ("%"), it is reserved for
+ # future extensions!
+ ;CloakHostModeX = cloaked.user
# Set every clients' user name to their nick name
;CloakUserToNick = yes
;DNS = yes
# Do IDENT lookups if ngIRCd has been compiled with support for it.
+ # Users identified using IDENT are registered without the "~" character
+ # prepended to their user name.
;Ident = yes
+ # Enhance user privacy slightly (useful for IRC server on TOR or I2P)
+ # by censoring some information like idle time, logon time, etc.
+ ;MorePrivacy = no
+
# Normally ngIRCd doesn't send any messages to a client until it is
# registered. Enable this option to let the daemon send "NOTICE AUTH"
# messages to clients while connecting.
;OperServerMode = no
# Use PAM if ngIRCd has been compiled with support for it.
- ;PAM = no
+ # Users identified using PAM are registered without the "~" character
+ # prepended to their user name.
+ ;PAM = yes
+
+ # When PAM is enabled, all clients are required to be authenticated
+ # using PAM; connecting to the server without successful PAM
+ # authentication isn't possible.
+ # If this option is set, clients not sending a password are still
+ # allowed to connect: they won't become "identified" and keep the "~"
+ # character prepended to their supplied user name.
+ # Please note: To make some use of this behavior, it most probably
+ # isn't useful to enable "Ident", "PAM" and "PAMIsOptional" at the
+ # same time, because you wouldn't be able to distinguish between
+ # Ident'ified and PAM-authenticated users: both don't have a "~"
+ # character prepended to their respective user names!
+ ;PAMIsOptional = no
# Allow Pre-Defined Channels only (see Section [Channels])
;PredefChannelsOnly = no
# "PONG" reply.
;RequireAuthPing = no
- # Silently drop all incomming CTCP requests.
+ # Silently drop all incoming CTCP requests.
;ScrubCTCP = no
# Syslog "facility" to which ngIRCd should send log messages.