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-.TH ngircd.conf 5 "May 2013" ngIRCd "ngIRCd Manual"
+.TH ngircd.conf 5 "Oct 2014" ngIRCd "ngIRCd Manual"
.SH NAME
ngircd.conf \- configuration file of ngIRCd
.SH SYNOPSIS
section, like the server name, administrative information and the ports on
which the server should be listening. The variables in this section have to be
adjusted to the local requirements most of the time, whereas all the variables
-in the other sections can be left on there defaults very often.
+in the other sections can be left on their defaults very often.
.PP
Options in the
.I [Limits]
blocks are used to configure pre-defined ("persistent") IRC channels.
.PP
There can be more than one [Operator], [Server] and [Channel] section per
-configuration file (one for each operator, server, and channel), but only
-exactly one [Global], one [Limits], one [Options], and one [SSL] section.
+configuration file, one for each operator, server, and channel. [Global],
+[Limits], [Options], and [SSL] sections can occure multiple times, too, but
+each variable overwrites itself, only the last assignment is relevant.
.SH [GLOBAL]
The
.I [Global]
-section of this file is used to define the main configuration of the server,
+section is used to define the main configuration of the server,
like the server name and the ports on which the server should be listening.
These settings depend on your personal preferences, so you should make sure
that they correspond to your installation and setup!
\fBMotdPhrase\fR (string)
A simple Phrase (<256 chars) if you don't want to use a MOTD file.
.TP
+\fBNetwork\fR (string)
+The name of the IRC network to which this server belongs. This name is
+optional, should only contain ASCII characters, and can't contain spaces.
+It is only used to inform clients. The default is empty, so no network
+name is announced to clients.
+.TP
\fBPassword\fR (string)
Global password for all users needed to connect to the server. The default is
empty, so no password is required. Please note: This feature is not available
.TP
\fBPidFile\fR (string)
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 writable by the ngIRCd user and exist in the
-chroot directory (if configured, see above).
+"PID file" is written AFTER chroot and switching the user ID, therefore the
+directory the file resides in must be writable by the ngIRCd user and exist
+in the chroot directory (if configured, see above).
.TP
\fBPorts\fR (list of numbers)
-Ports on which the server should listen for unencrypted connections. There
-may be more than one port, separated with commas (","). Default: 6667.
+Port number(s) on which the server should listen for unencrypted connections.
+There may be more than one port, separated with commas (","). Default: 6667.
.TP
\fBServerGID\fR (string or number)
-Group ID under which the ngIRCd should run; you can use the name of the
+Group ID under which the ngIRCd daemon should run; you can use the name of the
group or the numerical ID.
.PP
.RS
.RE
.TP
\fBServerUID\fR (string or number)
-User ID under which the server should run; you can use the name of the user
-or the numerical ID.
+User ID under which the ngIRCd daemon should run; you can use the name of the
+user or the numerical ID.
.PP
.RS
.B Attention:
otherwise RESTART and REHASH won't work!
.RE
.SH [LIMITS]
-Define some limits and timeouts for this ngIRCd instance. Default values
-should be safe, but it is wise to double-check :-)
+This section is used to define some limits and timeouts for this ngIRCd
+instance. Default values should be safe, but it is wise to double-check :-)
.TP
\fBConnectRetry\fR (number)
The server tries every <ConnectRetry> seconds to establish a link to not yet
seconds, it will be disconnected by the server. Default: 20.
.SH [OPTIONS]
Optional features and configuration options to further tweak the behavior of
-ngIRCd. If you want to get started quickly, you most probably don't have to
-make changes here -- they are all optional.
+ngIRCd are configured in this section. If you want to get started quickly, you
+most probably don't have to make changes here -- they are all optional.
.TP
\fBAllowedChannelTypes\fR (string)
List of allowed channel types (channel prefixes) for newly created channels
by local clients at all. Default: #&+
.TP
\fBAllowRemoteOper\fR (boolean)
-Are IRC operators connected to remote servers allowed to control this server,
-e.g. are they allowed to use administrative commands like CONNECT, DIE,
-SQUIT, ... that affect this server? Default: no.
+If this option is active, IRC operators connected to remote servers are allowed
+to control this local server using administrative commands, for example like
+CONNECT, DIE, SQUIT etc. Default: no.
.TP
\fBChrootDir\fR (string)
A directory to chroot in when everything is initialized. It doesn't need
generated after each server start.
.TP
\fBCloakUserToNick\fR (boolean)
-Set every clients' user name to their nickname and hide the one supplied
-by the IRC client. Default: no.
+Set every clients' user name and real name to their nickname and hide the one
+supplied by the IRC client. Default: no.
.TP
\fBConnectIPv4\fR (boolean)
Set this to no if you do not want ngIRCd to connect to other IRC servers using
.TP
\fBDefaultUserModes\fR (string)
Default user mode(s) to set on new local clients. Please note that only modes
-can be set that the client could set on itself, you can't set "a" (away) or
-"o" (IRC Op), for example!
+can be set that the client could set using regular MODE commands, you can't
+set "a" (away) for example!
Default: none.
.TP
\fBDNS\fR (boolean)
prepended to their user name.
Default: yes.
.TP
-.TP
\fBIncludeDir\fR (string)
Directory containing configuration snippets (*.conf), that should be read in
after parsing the current configuration file.
Default: none.
+.TP
\fBMorePrivacy\fR (boolean)
This will cause ngIRCd to censor user idle time, logon time as well as the
-part/quit messages (that are sometimes used to inform everyone about which
-client software is being used). WHOWAS requests are also silently ignored.
+PART/QUIT messages (that are sometimes used to inform everyone about which
+client software is being used). WHOWAS requests are also silently ignored,
+and NAMES output doesn't list any clients for non-members.
This option is most useful when ngIRCd is being used together with
anonymizing software such as TOR or I2P and one does not wish to make it
too easy to collect statistics on the users.
Default: no.
.TP
-\fBNoticeAuth\fR (boolean)
+\fBNoticeBeforeRegistration\fR (boolean)
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
+Enable this option to let the daemon send "NOTICE *" messages to clients
while connecting. Default: no.
.TP
\fBOperCanUseMode\fR (boolean)
SSL Certificate file of the private server key.
.TP
\fBCipherList\fR (string)
-Select cipher suites allowed for SSL/TLS connections. This defaults to the
-empty string, so all supported ciphers are allowed.
+Select cipher suites allowed for SSL/TLS connections. This defaults to
+"HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH:!SSLv3" (OpenSSL) or "SECURE128:-VERS-SSL3.0" (GnuTLS).
Please see 'man 1ssl ciphers' (OpenSSL) and 'man 3 gnutls_priority_init'
(GnuTLS) for details.
-For example, this setting allows only "high strength" cipher suites, disables
-the ones without authentication, and sorts by strength:
-"HIGH:!aNULL:@STRENGTH" (OpenSSL), "SECURE128" (GnuTLS).
.TP
\fBDHFile\fR (string)
Name of the Diffie-Hellman Parameter file. Can be created with GnuTLS
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