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| − | + | '''Notice: Sugar Labs is no longer offering IRC proxy service.''' | |
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| − | + | Nowadays, you may find us and chat with us in [[Matrix]]. | |
| − | send the hash to the [[Infrastructure_Team/Contacts | sysadmin contact]]. | + | |
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| + | Our shell accounts server [[Machine/sunjammer]] hosts an instance of [http://bip.milkypond.org/ BIP], | ||
| + | a multiuser IRC proxy. | ||
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| + | == Requesting a proxy == | ||
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| + | This service is only available to trusted developers with a [[Service/shell|shell account]]. | ||
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| + | Setup a password with <code>bipmkpw</code> on sunjammer and send the | ||
| + | resulting hash to the [[Infrastructure_Team/Contacts | sysadmin contact]] along | ||
| + | with: | ||
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| + | * Your IRC nickname | ||
| + | * Optionally, a list of channels to connect to | ||
| + | * Optionally, your NickServ password so the proxy can automatically login as you when the server boots | ||
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| + | Since you'll be connecting from one of our public IPs, we'll provide your actual | ||
| + | login name and real name to the IRC network. | ||
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| + | Of course, you can have other servers besides FreeNode. Let us know which | ||
| + | ones you require. | ||
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| + | == Configuring your IRC client == | ||
IRC clients should be configured as follows: | IRC clients should be configured as follows: | ||
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Use SSL: yes | Use SSL: yes | ||
Accept invalid SSL certificates: yes | Accept invalid SSL certificates: yes | ||
| − | + | Server password: USERNAME:PASSWORD:NETWORK | |
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| + | BIP uses the password field to encode three fields separated by a colon: | ||
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| + | * USERNAME: your bip username (same of your shell account) | ||
| + | * PASSWORD: the password you used with bipmkpw | ||
| + | * NETWORK: the identifier of the IRC network to connect to (for example, "freenode"). | ||
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| + | If you have multiple IRC networks, create multiple server entries in your IRC client, | ||
| + | each one with a different value for NETWORK. | ||
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| + | This configuration is known to work with [http://xchat.org/ XChat] and [http://konversation.kde.org/ Konversation]. | ||
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| + | == See also == | ||
| + | * [[Service/shell]] | ||
| − | + | [[Category:Service|IRC Proxy]] | |
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Latest revision as of 12:13, 30 January 2025
Notice: Sugar Labs is no longer offering IRC proxy service.
Nowadays, you may find us and chat with us in Matrix.