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More installation tweaks

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Neale Pickett 2015-01-30 21:13:25 -07:00
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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Spongy Server Installation
You gotta make a base directory with an `authtok` file, You gotta make a base directory with an `authtok` file,
and a subdirectory for every server you want to connect to. and a subdirectory for every server you want to connect to.
BASE DIRECTORY BASE_DIRECTORY
+-- slashnet +-- slashnet
| +-- handler | +-- handler
| +-- config/ | +-- config/
@ -49,7 +49,14 @@ do something like this:
$ echo 'PRIVMSG #channel :hello world' > outq/$$.$(date +%s) $ echo 'PRIVMSG #channel :hello world' > outq/$$.$(date +%s)
Starting up
-----------
Pretty easy:
$ cd BASE_DIRECTORY; /path/to/spongy
Spongy will go off and connect to every configured server in BASE_DIRECTORY.
Spongy CGI Configuration Spongy CGI Configuration
@ -57,22 +64,22 @@ Spongy CGI Configuration
If you'd like to run `spongy.cgi`, If you'd like to run `spongy.cgi`,
that's fine, that's fine,
but you have to create a configuration file but you have to create a file
called `spongy.cfg` called `spongy.basedir`
in the same directory as the CGI. in the same directory as the CGI.
It looks like this: You can do it like this:
{ $ echo '/home/neale/BASE_DIRECTORY' > spongy.basedir
"auth": "bdf0ff3f50f492bd0fb261caf097829138f472dd0ab3b504fe0f01e8c8225664",
"basedir": "/home/neale/lib/irc"
}
`basedir` is the path to the BASE DIRECTORY from above. And then,
in `BASE_DIRECTORY`,
you need a file called `auth`
with a sha256 checksum of the authorization token
you want to use in the client.
`auth` is a sha256 checksum of your password. You can make it like this:
You can generate it for the password "bloop" like this:
$ echo -n "bloop" | sha256sum $ printf 'my fabulous token' | sha256sum | cut -d\ -f1 > BASE_DIRECTORY
Permissions Permissions
@ -85,11 +92,17 @@ make `spongy.cgi` setuid to you.
$ chmod +s spongy.cgi $ chmod +s spongy.cgi
If it's setuid, If it's setuid,
you don't need to make your config file readable by whatever user you don't need to make your config file
(or any other files)
readable by the user that
runs the web server. runs the web server.
Sadly, Sadly,
Apache has a whole bunch of weirdness that prevents this from working. Apache has a whole bunch of weirdness in place
which prevents setuid CGI from working
without a lot of configuration twiddling.
But it also has its own mechanism for running CGI
as the user who owns it.
So if you're using Apache, So if you're using Apache,
please send me a recipe for your solution, please send me a recipe for your solution,
and I'll add it to the distribution :) and I'll add it to the distribution :)