Irc is an Altid service used to connect to an IRC network
currently working on plan9 only
go install github.com/altid/ircfs/cmd/irc@latest
irc [-s <servicename>] [-d] [-a <address to bind to>] [-m]
- -d enables debug output
- if no service name is given,
ircis used
# altid/config - place this in your operating systems' default config directory
service=irc address=libera.chat port=6697 auth=pass=hunter2 ssl=none
nick=guest user=guest name=guest
channels=#altid
log=/home/guest/logs/irc/
filter=all
service=irc2 address=supersecure.ircserver.net port=28888 auth=factotum
ssl=cert cert=/path/to/some/cert.pem key=/path/to/some/key.pem
nick=fsociety user=elliot
filter=smart
- service matches the given servicename (default "irc")
- address is the address for the remote IRC server
- port is the port on the remote IRC server
- auth is the authentication method
- pass will send the string following pass= as your user password to the remote IRC server
- factotum uses a local factotum (Plan9, plan9port) to find your password
- none bypasses password authentication at connection time (default)
- ssl
- none will use a plain TCP connection with the remote IRC server
- simple will use a simple, generally insecure connection to the remote IRC server. This is for testing purposes only and should generally not be usd
- cert uses the values provided for cert= and key= to use certificate based authenticationover a TLS connection to the remote server
- nick, user, and name are your respective nickname, username that you registered to the IRC server, and your real name (optional)
- filter
- all filters all JOIN/PART/QUIT messages
- smart filters JOIN/PART/QUIT messages for people who haven't written to the channel recently
- none does not filter any messages
