ZNC

Guide to ZNC

This page describes client and server setup for ZNC with LDAP authentication. For more info on ZNC, see [1].

Server setup

Saslauthd setup

For LDAP authentication, we use the Cyrusauth module [2], which needs to communicate with the SASL authentication daemon (saslauthd).

1. On the server, install the following packages:

   apt install sasl2-bin ca-certificates

2. Open /etc/default/saslauthd, and change the following lines:

   START=yes
   MECHANISM="ldap"
   

3. Paste the following into /etc/saslauthd.conf:

   ldap_servers: ldaps://auth1.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ldaps://auth2.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
   ldap_search_base: ou=People,dc=csclub,dc=uwaterloo,dc=ca
   ldap_filter: (uid=%u)
   

4. Start saslauthd:

   # service saslauthd start
   

5. Test saslauthd to make sure it's working:

   $ testsaslauthd -u "your_csc_username" -p "your_csc_password"
   

   You should see a response like

   0: OK "Success."
   

ZNC setup

1. Install ZNC:

   # apt install znc