IRCD-Hybrid
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SSL Certificate
===============

Important note: ircd-hybrid is not compiled with SSL support by default;
for information about how to produce an SSL-enabled build, and why support
is not enabled by default, please see /usr/share/doc/ircd-hybrid/README.SSL.

For the sake of simplicity a SSL certificate (for use with client SSL
connections) is generated with rather bogus info during after ircd-hybrid
installs. If you would like to change the info in the certificate, edit
/etc/ircd-hybrid/cert.cnf, and then run as root:

openssl req -config /etc/ircd-hybrid/cert.cnf -new -x509 -key /etc/ircd-hybrid/key/ircd.key -out /etc/ircd-hybrid/key/ircd.pem -days 365

You will probably want to restart the server after this for the changes to take
effect.

Initial Configuration
=====================

After installing the package, you can access the IRC server at
localhost:6667. But it will have conservative default settings and the
only people allowed to connect will be local users. So before further
using the server, PLEASE edit ircd.conf in /etc/ircd-hybrid. You will
have a server called hybrid7.debian.local and only bound to localhost
until you do. Then, you may restart it using:

	/etc/init.d/ircd-hybrid restart

And the server should come back up with your new setup. If not,

	tail /var/log/ircd/ircd-hybrid.log

and see what went wrong. Remember that all configuration statements must 
end with semicolons, even at the ends of blocks (};) - this is the 
leading cause of 'syntax errors' :)

Other Information
=================

Note that the default behavior of m_opme is to +o any admin in an opless
channel. An experimental patch in debian/patches changes this so that you
only need O flags.. The rationale is that if you're able to /kill 
people, channel operator stuff is probably okay, too. This is not part 
of the default build; add it to debian/patches/00list if you wish to 
enable this, and rebuild. The patch ID is 99_opme_allow_operators.

A patch enabled in the default build removes the condition that a 
channel needs to be opless for m_opme to work, since an oper can use 
/ojoin (m_ojoin.so) anyway for this to happen.

-- Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>  Mon, 26 Dec 2003 21:21:34 -0800
-- Aurélien GÉRÔME <ag@roxor.cx>  Sun,  8 Oct 2006 18:19:00 +0200
-- Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>  Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:05:35 +0000