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Rosella
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About
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Rosella is a small ircd (Internet Relay Chat Daemon).
It partially implements RFC2812, but will never be fully compliant.
Rosella is intended to provide a portable, light-weight, near-zero-conf
ircd capable of handling many simultaneous connections, whilst providing
as much privacy for its users as possible.
Rosella is *not* production ready, or recommended for large-scale usage.
An x.509 key and certificate are required to open a TLS listener.
Proper key handling and certificate checking is the responsibility of the
users. Rosella cannot protect you from stupidity or untrustworthy CA's.
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Usage
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Compilation required Go 1.1.2 or later. Just run `make` to compile Rosella.
Command line options can be found by running `ircd -h`.
###x.509 Certificate###
Rosella expects you to provide a valid x.509 certificate and private key.
You can generate these yourself with openssl, or obtain one from a certificate
authority you trust.
###Auth File###
The auth file provides a list of usernames and hashed passwords that the /OPER
command will accept. The format is one username and password pair per line.
Lines starting with a `#` are ignored as comments, as are blank lines. The
password is hashed with SHA1. Username and password are placed on the same
line and separated by a single space, as such:
#This line is a comment
username1 sha1_hashed_password
#Another comment, blank lines are ignored
username2 sha1_hashed_password
username3 sha1_hashed_password
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Design Principles
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* Rosella will not spy upon its users, or log them in any way.
* Rosella will not communicate with any users in plaintext.
* Rosella will not provide any mechanism for identifying other users beyond
their nicknames.
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* Rosella will not allow any user to spy upon any other user.
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* Rosella's source code will be kept as easy to understand as possible.
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Contributing
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Patches and pull requests for new features and code clean ups are welcome as
long as they follow the design principles.
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License
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Copyright (C) 2013 Harry Jeffery
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.