Comments on: Configuring a FreeBSD IRC Shell Server

By: t1m1976

t1m1976 — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:44:56 +0000

I actually can’t seem to get my FreeBSD 8.1 auth to work with IRC either. I’ve tried using the built-in auth, oidentd and pidentd. I’ve modifed the configuration files for both oidentd and pidentd and have tried using .oidentd.conf in a user’s home directory too. I have verified that the IRC servers are sending the request and that my host is answering those requests (/var/log/security and the verbose logging through ipfw). I have disabled the router firewall completely, but have not tried router DMZ mode. Still, I can not get any IRC servers to say anything other than * No Ident Response.

Here’s the funny thing though:

“auth” always returns user as root. I can not figure out why and have been wondering for a few days how to change that.

“pidentd” always returns the user the daemon is running as (ie: the one configured in /usr/local/etc/identd.conf). If I omit the daemon server user, it will default to nobody. The latest version of pidentd also gives me a strange response, where it omits a space before the username so it smacks the username right up against the : before it. I’m not sure if that matters or not.

“oidentd” didn’t seem to work for me either, but most people seem to be using this. I don’t really want to use that if I can get the built-in “auth” to return something other than root, though.

Anyways, I know this comment section is not specifically for ident issues but I just thought I would mention it since I saw someone else comment about that too.

Thanks for putting this page up; the suggestions are very useful.

By: prez

prez — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:56:44 +0000

No problem Ruslie. I figure, better late than never. Haha.

By: Ruslie

Ruslie — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:32:56 +0000

waw it has been 2 years since i asked that question

and thank you prez

By: prez

prez — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:34:27 +0000

Hey Ruslie,

You’ll need to install oidentd or similar on the system in which your psyBNC runs on. (Identd Daemon!)

(prez@DALnet / prez@EFnet / prez@Rizon)
email: prez@dal.net

By: Taimur

Taimur — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:06:41 +0000

A perfect guide for a shell co. administrator.

Thanks!

By: deadpan

deadpan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:25:25 +0000

great guide so far, any info on how to setup some sort of signup form that would allow a user to pick the user name and whatnot and have it added to the system?

By: krasko

krasko — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:02:55 +0000

realy nice

thank you!

By: ruslie

ruslie — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:03:22 +0000

hi my psybnc ident has ~ string for example ~test@xx.xxx.xxx.xx
how to fix it?
thanks

By: rdns

rdns — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:33:52 +0000

hi!

this is the most useful guide for shell admin
i’ll bookmark this
thanks a lot!

By: hm2k

hm2k — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:22:12 +0000

I think pretty much in freebsd 6.0+

kern.ps_showallprocs=0
kern.ps_argsopen=0

Are no longer required, and a replaced by…

security.bsd.see_other_uids=0