ZNC install for network Administrators

This guide tells how we install ZNC for our whole network, with integrated login to our X3 services.

Assuming a debian 8 (jessie) base system:

• Install debian backports: add deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main to /etc/apt/sources.list. dont forget to sudo apt-get update
• Install build dependencies by cheating a bit using the debian dependency list: sudo apt-get build-dep znc
• Install CMake: sudo apt-get install cmake
• Install ICU: sudo apt-get install libicu-dev
• Install SWIG: sudo apt-get install swig3.0
• Install Boost: sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
• git clone the repository. We maintain some patches to ZNC for integration with sasl/ldap etc so you'll want to use the latest version branch from our znc fork: https://github.com/evilnet/znc
• cd to the cloned repository
• enable git submodules: git submodule update –init –recursive
• compile: make
• install: make install
• Run for the first time, from the install directory: bin/znc –makeconf
  • Username: admin
  • Password: see keepass db (rubin)
  • Nickname: zncadmin
  • Ident: zncadmin
  • Real name: ZNC Administrator
  • Bind host: empty

• Install saslauthd package: apt-get install sasl2-bin
• edit /etc/defaults/saslauthd:

START=yes
MECHANISM="ldap"

* edit/create ''/etc/saslauthd.conf'':

ldap_servers: ldaps://yourldapserver.domain
ldap_search_base: ou=users,dc=yourdomain,dc=org
ldap_filter: (uid=%u)
ldap_tls_cert: /etc/ssl/yourcertificate.cer

* Copy the CA certificate matching your ldap server to /etc/ssl/yourcertificate.cer