znc-betterident

Better ident integration for ZNC

the idea

identfile is slow, identserver is unstable.

identfile requires using a spoof with an existing identd, which isn't granular enough so connections have to go through one at a time

from my experience, identserver has had times where it has outputted for somebody else's network.

so, why not use a daemon for the actual ident stuff, and make a znc module that communicates with it, what could possibly go wro-

okay, i am bad at using znc modpython, this is my first time, though i have fixed most segfault bugs, and i am running this module on znc.swee.codes.

installation

you need:

• ZNC 1.10.x and newer (with modpython included)
• Go (for building the daemon)

put the betterident.py file in your znc modules folder

run go build to build the daemon

after that, move the betterident file to /usr/local/sbin/

create a service file for betterident

OpenRC

#!/sbin/openrc-run

command="/usr/local/sbin/betterident"
command_args="/tmp/betterident.sock"
command_background="yes"
pidfile="/run/$RC_SVCNAME.pid"
output_log="/var/log/betterident.log"
depend() {
        need net
        use dns
	before znc
}

systemd

[Unit]
Description=ZNC betterident
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
Before=znc.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/betterident /tmp/betterident.sock
Type=simple
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

FreeBSD rc

#!/bin/sh

# PROVIDE: betterident
# REQUIRE: NETWORKING
# BEFORE: znc
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name="betterident"
rcvar="betterident_enable"
start_precmd="betterident_precmd"
procname="/usr/local/sbin/betterident"
pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"

load_rc_config $name

: ${betterident_enable:="NO"}

command="/usr/sbin/daemon"
command_args="-f -l daemon -s info -p ${pidfile} /usr/local/sbin/betterident /tmp/betterident.sock"

betterident_precmd() {
        if [ ! -e "${pidfile}" ]; then
                install "/dev/null" "${pidfile}"
        fi
}

run_rc_command "$1"

in all examples, the socket will be stored in /tmp/betterident.sock

after that, load the ZNC module

/msg *status loadmod betterident /tmp/betterident.sock

and you're set!

Important

this setup is SUPER fragile, so make sure you unload the ZNC module before stopping the daemon.