Hello, I am new the IRC world and I have a question. I setup Unreal IRCD on a FC14 box and got it running. When I compiled I compiled with SSL available. Now I am wondering if there is a way to require all connections to use SSL. Does anyone know if this is possible? I saw the post on requiring opers to use SSL and if that is the best I can do then I'll at least do that.
FYI: This is not for a production environment. I am doing this for a security class and the instructor is using the IRC channel to communicate information about our team. I don't want the other teams to get this information so you can see my want for the SSL requirement. Thanks in advance.
Also, I am a frequent user of Linux but this is my first time with IRC anything so I appreciate the help and understanding from everyone.
Require SSL
Re: Require SSL
Yes, you can require SSL. It's as simple as only having "Option SSL" on all of your ports. The only problem with this is, if they connect with a non ssl client, they will see this: " * [10053] Software caused connection abort". There will be no error message saying that the server is SSL only, so you would have to notify people of the SSL issue via a website, and give them a list of SSL clients to use.
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Re: Require SSL
Thank you for the reply. Does having a client that supports SSL just mean that the client must also have OpenSSL install or are there particular clients that will support SSL without having OpenSSL installed?
Re: Require SSL
You need to have OpenSSL installed for SSL to be supported.breimer273 wrote:Thank you for the reply. Does having a client that supports SSL just mean that the client must also have OpenSSL install or are there particular clients that will support SSL without having OpenSSL installed?
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Re: Require SSL
Mirc has SSL support built in now, you just have to download the openssl libraries they provide. (http://www.mirc.com/ssl.html)
XChat has built in support without additional downloads (http://xchat.org)
There are several other clients out there, but most don't formally support SSL "Out of the Box"
The other option for using SSL is stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org). Any client can connect through it, even if it does not support SSL.
XChat has built in support without additional downloads (http://xchat.org)
There are several other clients out there, but most don't formally support SSL "Out of the Box"
The other option for using SSL is stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org). Any client can connect through it, even if it does not support SSL.
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