feat(irc): members-only Ergo IRC network co-located on the BBS

Provision a self-hosted Ergo IRC network (irc.${DOMAIN}) in setup.sh §9b:
single Go binary on its own ports/user, reusing Caddy's Let's Encrypt cert
for 6697 TLS (refreshed by a timer; self-signed fallback on first boot),
loopback 6667 + a loopback WebSocket fronted by Caddy at wss://${DOMAIN}/irc.

Access is MEMBERS-ONLY: every client must authenticate with SASL, self-service
registration is off, and an auth-script (deploy/ergo/auth-script.sh, installed
as /usr/local/bin/ergo-auth-member) approves a login only if the account name
maps to an existing AgentBBS member home dir under <data>/users/. Passphrase is
ignored — membership (the filesystem dir) is the credential. require-sasl has
no IP exemption so WebSocket clients (which reach Ergo via Caddy from 127.0.0.1)
can't bypass the gate; accounts are auto-created on first successful auth.

Public attack surface is TLS-only (ufw opens 6697; 6667 is loopback). Toggle
with IRC=0. See docs/irc.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Anthony Ettinger 2026-06-14 11:21:39 +00:00
parent 4be87440d5
commit 8adafaf515
6 changed files with 1570 additions and 2 deletions

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setup.sh
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@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ SKIP_BUILD="${SKIP_BUILD:-0}" # set 1 to use prebuilt /usr/local/bin/{agen
SWAP_SIZE="${SWAP_SIZE:-3G}" # swapfile size added on low-RAM hosts (set 0 to skip)
SELF_UPDATE="${SELF_UPDATE:-1}" # set 0 to skip the autonomous self-update systemd timer
SELF_UPDATE_INTERVAL="${SELF_UPDATE_INTERVAL:-15min}" # how often the box polls origin for new commits
IRC="${IRC:-1}" # set 0 to skip the co-located Ergo IRC server (irc.${DOMAIN})
ERGO_VERSION="${ERGO_VERSION:-2.18.0}" # Ergo IRCd release to install
IRC_NETWORK="${IRC_NETWORK:-ProfullstackBBS}" # IRC network name shown to clients
ERGO_DATA="${ERGO_DATA:-/var/lib/ergo}" # Ergo state dir (ircd.db, tls/)
log() { printf '\033[1;36m==>\033[0m %s\n' "$*"; }
warn() { printf '\033[1;33m[warn]\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
@ -85,7 +89,7 @@ log "installing packages"
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get update -qq
apt-get install -y -qq \
git ca-certificates curl ufw ffmpeg unzip \
git ca-certificates curl ufw ffmpeg unzip jq \
podman uidmap slirp4netns fuse-overlayfs \
tor torsocks \
debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring apt-transport-https >/dev/null
@ -428,6 +432,14 @@ ${DOMAIN} {
reverse_proxy http://${HTTP_ADDR}
}
# IRC over WebSocket: Caddy terminates TLS and proxies to Ergo's loopback
# WebSocket listener, so web clients hit wss://${DOMAIN}/irc and agents get a
# WebSocket transport without exposing another public port. (No-op if IRC=0;
# Ergo just isn't listening on 8097, so /irc returns 502.)
handle /irc {
reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8097
}
# tilde.town-style homepages: /~name[/path] -> users/name/public_html/path
@tilde path_regexp tilde ^/~([^/]+)(/.*)?\$
handle @tilde {
@ -477,6 +489,135 @@ ufw allow 80/tcp >/dev/null
ufw allow 443/tcp >/dev/null
systemctl reload caddy 2>/dev/null || systemctl restart caddy
# ---- 9b. Ergo IRC server (co-located irc.${DOMAIN}; humans + agents) --------
# A lightweight single-binary IRC network on its own ports, sharing this box and
# this hostname's TLS cert. Native clients hit irc.${DOMAIN}:6697 (TLS); web
# clients and agents hit wss://${DOMAIN}/irc (Caddy fronts Ergo's loopback
# WebSocket). See docs/irc.md. Disable with IRC=0.
if [ "$IRC" = "1" ]; then
log "installing Ergo IRC server v${ERGO_VERSION} (irc.${DOMAIN})"
case "$GOARCH" in
amd64) ERGO_ARCH=x86_64 ;;
arm64) ERGO_ARCH=arm64 ;;
*) ERGO_ARCH="$GOARCH" ;;
esac
id ergo >/dev/null 2>&1 || useradd --system --home-dir "$ERGO_DATA" --shell /usr/sbin/nologin ergo
install -d -m 0755 /opt/ergo "$ERGO_DATA" "$ERGO_DATA/tls" /etc/ergo
# Install/upgrade the binary + bundled languages (idempotent: only on version change).
if [ "$(/opt/ergo/ergo --version 2>/dev/null)" != "ergo-${ERGO_VERSION}" ]; then
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
curl -fsSL "https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/releases/download/v${ERGO_VERSION}/ergo-${ERGO_VERSION}-linux-${ERGO_ARCH}.tar.gz" -o "$tmp/ergo.tgz" \
|| die "could not download Ergo ${ERGO_VERSION}"
tar -C "$tmp" -xzf "$tmp/ergo.tgz"
d="$tmp/ergo-${ERGO_VERSION}-linux-${ERGO_ARCH}"
install -m 0755 "$d/ergo" /opt/ergo/ergo
rm -rf /opt/ergo/languages && cp -r "$d/languages" /opt/ergo/languages
rm -rf "$tmp"
fi
# Operator password: generate once, keep the plaintext root-only, embed only the hash.
if [ ! -f "$ENV_DIR/ergo-oper.txt" ]; then
OPER_PASS="$(head -c18 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' | head -c24)"
printf '%s\n' "$OPER_PASS" > "$ENV_DIR/ergo-oper.txt"
chmod 600 "$ENV_DIR/ergo-oper.txt"
fi
OPER_PASS="$(cat "$ENV_DIR/ergo-oper.txt")"
OPER_HASH="$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$OPER_PASS" "$OPER_PASS" | /opt/ergo/ergo genpasswd 2>/dev/null | tail -1)"
# Render the config template from the repo (the __TOKENS__ become real values).
sed -e "s|__NETWORK__|${IRC_NETWORK}|g" \
-e "s|__DOMAIN__|${DOMAIN}|g" \
-e "s|__DATA__|${ERGO_DATA}|g" \
-e "s|__TLS_DIR__|${ERGO_DATA}/tls|g" \
-e "s|__LANG_DIR__|/opt/ergo/languages|g" \
-e "s|__OPER_PASSWORD_HASH__|${OPER_HASH}|g" \
-e "s|__USERS_DIR__|${DATA_DIR}/users|g" \
"${SRC_DIR}/deploy/ergo/ircd.yaml" > /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml
chmod 640 /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml
# IRC is members-only: this auth-script approves a SASL login only if the
# account name maps to an AgentBBS member home dir under ${DATA_DIR}/users.
install -m 0755 "${SRC_DIR}/deploy/ergo/auth-script.sh" /usr/local/bin/ergo-auth-member
# TLS for 6697: reuse Caddy's Let's Encrypt cert for ${DOMAIN}; self-signed
# fallback on first run before Caddy has issued it (the timer swaps it in).
install -m 0755 "${SRC_DIR}/deploy/ergo/refresh-certs.sh" /usr/local/bin/ergo-refresh-certs
DOMAIN="$DOMAIN" ERGO_DATA="$ERGO_DATA" /usr/local/bin/ergo-refresh-certs || true
if [ ! -s "$ERGO_DATA/tls/fullchain.pem" ]; then
warn "no Caddy cert for ${DOMAIN} yet — using a self-signed cert on 6697 until the ergo-certs timer swaps in the real one"
( cd /etc/ergo && /opt/ergo/ergo mkcerts --conf /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml --quiet 2>/dev/null ) \
|| openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -days 90 -x509 \
-keyout "$ERGO_DATA/tls/privkey.pem" -out "$ERGO_DATA/tls/fullchain.pem" \
-subj "/CN=irc.${DOMAIN}" 2>/dev/null
fi
chown -R ergo:ergo "$ERGO_DATA" /etc/ergo
# Initialize the datastore once.
[ -f "$ERGO_DATA/ircd.db" ] || sudo -u ergo /opt/ergo/ergo initdb --conf /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml --quiet
log "installing ergo.service"
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ergo.service <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=Ergo IRC server (AgentBBS — irc.${DOMAIN})
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
User=ergo
Group=ergo
WorkingDirectory=/opt/ergo
ExecStart=/opt/ergo/ergo run --conf /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml
# Ergo rehashes config + reloads TLS certs on SIGHUP.
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP \$MAINPID
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
NoNewPrivileges=true
ProtectSystem=strict
ProtectHome=true
PrivateTmp=true
ReadWritePaths=${ERGO_DATA} /etc/ergo
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
UNIT
# Daily cert refresh from Caddy (tracks auto-renewals).
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ergo-certs.service <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=Refresh Ergo TLS cert from Caddy for ${DOMAIN}
[Service]
Type=oneshot
Environment=DOMAIN=${DOMAIN}
Environment=ERGO_DATA=${ERGO_DATA}
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ergo-refresh-certs
UNIT
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ergo-certs.timer <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=Periodic Ergo TLS cert refresh from Caddy
[Timer]
OnBootSec=5min
OnUnitActiveSec=12h
Persistent=true
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
UNIT
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable ergo >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
systemctl restart ergo
systemctl enable --now ergo-certs.timer >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
ufw allow 6697/tcp >/dev/null
sleep 1
systemctl is-active --quiet ergo \
|| warn "ergo failed to start — check: journalctl -u ergo -n50"
else
systemctl disable --now ergo ergo-certs.timer >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
# ---- 10. firewall + start agentbbs on :22 ----------------------------------
log "configuring firewall + starting agentbbs"
ufw allow 22/tcp >/dev/null
@ -503,9 +644,12 @@ cat <<DONE
Web https://${DOMAIN}/ site root
https://${DOMAIN}/~<name> a member's homepage
https://<your-domain> a member's homepage on a custom domain (auto-HTTPS)
IRC irc.${DOMAIN}:6697 (TLS) native clients ${IRC:+(set IRC=0 to disable)}
wss://${DOMAIN}/irc web clients + agents over WebSocket
/OPER admin <pw> oper password in ${ENV_DIR}/ergo-oper.txt
Config ${ENV_DIR}/agentbbs.env (set CoinPay + LiveKit, then: systemctl restart agentbbs)
Logs journalctl -u agentbbs -f
Logs journalctl -u agentbbs -f (IRC: journalctl -u ergo -f)
Update re-run this script (git pull + rebuild + restart)
DONE
warn "Before you log out: open a new terminal and confirm ssh -p ${ADMIN_SSH_PORT} <you>@${DOMAIN} works."