IAUTH(8)

✨ IAUTH ✨

okay bestie so this is iauth, aka The Internet Relay Chat Authentication Program, and it lives in section 8 of the System Manager's Manual 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

iauth — The Internet Relay Chat Authentication Program 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

iauth [ -v | -c configfile ]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so iauth is a slave process, okay? like not the main character at all, it's giving supporting role energy 🎀 but it's the one doing the actual work of authentication of incoming TCP connections. the ircd program is the one that starts iauth, and it does that right at startup. the way that ircd just launches it... iconic honestly 👑

and here's a lil detail you're gonna wanna remember: whenever iauth gets a user signal 2, aka SIGUSR2, it will close and reopen the log file. why do we care? because that's how you rotate the log file, bestie 🔥 it's literally the whole point. no cap.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -c filename — when you pass this flag, the program is gonna read the configuration file you specified and validate it. so if you're tryna check whether your setup has errors in it, this is your girl 🫶 super useful, fr fr.
• -v — this option dumps information about the version. that's it, that's the whole job ⭐

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

millennium% iauth -c iauth.conf
iauth 2.10

Reading "iauth.conf"

Module(s) loaded:
        rfc931

look at her go 😭💖

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

(c) 1998 Christophe Kalt

for the full COPYRIGHT, go check the LICENSE file that comes with the IRC package 📜

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• "iauth.conf"

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• iauth.conf(5)
• ircd(8)

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💀 BUGS 💀

None... ;-) like literally none, she's perfect 🙈

...but ok if somebody does find one, please send mail to ircd-bugs@irc.org. we're listening, bestie 📬

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🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

Christophe Kalt.

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$Date: 2001/10/20 17:57:24 $ — yeah this page is vintage vintage, from the System Manager's Manual, and she still ate 💅✨ mwah, love u, go rotate ur logs 🫶