Useful Configuration Snippets

Enabling support for connections via hosted clients

As of v3.4.0 InspIRCd ships with preconfigured files for enabling support for popular hosted clients on your server.

To add support for IRCCloud add the following include tag to your configuration:

<include file="examples/providers/irccloud.conf.example">

If you run a popular hosted client or a shared bouncer service that supports modern IRC features we would be happy to include configs for your client. Please open a feature request and we'll try to work something out.

Requiring connections to use SASL

To do this you create an allow connect class which only applies pre-connection and two connect classes that apply post-connection. The first being an allow connect class with <connect:requireaccount> set to yes (requires the sasl module and the the services_account module) and the second being a deny connect class with a reason explaining to the user why they cannot connect.

You can also combine this with other <connect> fields such as adding port="6660-6669" to only apply to plain text connections or webirc="*" to only apply to connections via WebIRC gateways (requires the cgiirc module).

<connect name="before-reg"
         allow="*"
         registered="no">

<connect name="authed"
         allow="*"
         registered="yes"
         requireaccount="yes">

<connect name="no-auth"
         deny="*"
         registered="yes"
         requireaccount="no"
         reason="You must authenticate using SASL to connect to this server.">