Topic: IRC Bot on SME server

[Gondar]

I would like to set up an IRC bot on my SME server.
I read about Eggdrop but i'm (as you imagine) a really newbie and i do not want to compromise the server integrity
Any useful link 2 dox & HowTos or RPMs?
The only one i found & read was in french and i can't understand the whole doc
tia

[Jinxy]

Can't of course say which way to do it for ur specific purpose but I did it like this:

1) Installed all the rpm's so I could compile stuff
2) Had to install ssl-development files as I had to compile the bot with ssl libs

There is prob. a better and easier way than this without having to resort to install all the development utils, but it's the way I did it..

[electrnjnkie]

I have managed to install eggdrop to my SME Server as well i followed the link

http://www.frenchcancan.net/v3/bot_howto.htm

Provided by contribs.org and was able to sucesfully install it. The issue i run into though is i cannot ssh into my server under any other user other than root. The problem is at this point that eggdrop will not run as root. So how do i ssh into the server as a different user? I use Putty to ssh into the server with but when i try it with another accnt, it will ask me for my Login and i will give that but when it asks for the password and i type this in the putty window will close out on me. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanx,
EJ

[DarkMirage]

How about logging in as root and using su to start eggdrop?
For example: You added user eggdrop and eggdrop starts with /usr/bin/eggdrop

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su - eggdrop -c "/usr/bin/eggdrop"

edit: bit more text  

[electrnjnkie]

ok i tried su eggdrop (eggdrop is the user accnt i need to run this from) and i recived an error.

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Mitel Networks SME Server
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Standard user login services have been disabled.


Terminating connection.

I am assuming i need to enable "standard login services".

I am not quite sure how to do this. If there is any documentation about this plz give me direction
any help would be greatly appriciated.

Thanx,
EJ

[DarkMirage]

su mimics a user login, which appears to be disallowed with eggdrop...

Offcourse, this user should be allowed to run a process, so you might try this:

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exec setuidgid eggdrop /usr/bin/eggdrop

You wouldn't want to break security on a system user (like eggdrop) by giving it more privileges.

[dexz]

youll need to enable the standard user login

http://www.dungog.net/sme/help/SMEhelp/Server%20Shell%20Access.html

will show you how to enable it. good luck.

[DarkMirage]

My previous idea isn't going to work...
Not unless you drop exec from that line anyway.

Are you absolutely sure standard user login is needed for eggdrop? I mean, is it supposed to run in the background, like most daemons, or does it do/need more?

The line above came from a startup script,
I should have known better I guess  
However, I can imagine that's the way you will want to go at some point, instead of keeping a putty window open al the time or something like that.

[electrnjnkie]

I found the command

chsh -s /bin/bash eggdrop

This lets me ssh into the server under any user i set this up with. What i need to know now is after i get the eggdrop up and running how do i go back and disbal this.  

I have been reading that this may have security risks.

[electrnjnkie]

Ok the command to undo this is

chsh -s /bin/sshell <username>

Just in case anyone wants to know.

Soon as i get a sucessfull install of the eggdrop i will write up a doc in english so peeps can have an easire time at this.