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A trusted caller can now do everything a user does through NickServ commands — Register, Authenticate, SetPassword, SetEmail, Confirm, Drop, ForceLogout, GroupNick, UngroupNick — over gRPC instead of IRC. Each mirrors its NickServ command's exact behavior (Drop reuses the same cleanup a peer's gossiped drop already triggers; SetPassword/Register derive credentials off the shared engine lock, same as the IRC path) but is privileged: the bearer token is the authorization, so most calls skip the account's own password check the IRC command requires — the same trust model as an admin-level JSON-RPC integration. A write commits locally and gossips to every other node exactly like an IRC-originated one, no new propagation path needed. Verified end-to-end over the real wire, not just unit tests: registered an account via gRPC, changed its password via gRPC, then logged into a live IRC session with that exact password.
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# fedserv
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A federated IRC services daemon in Rust. Protocol-agnostic core, InspIRCd link first.
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Clean-room, inspired by the ideas behind modern event-log/gossip services, not
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derived from any project's source.
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## Design
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The core lives in `src/`; the pluggable parts live in `modules/` (see
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`modules/README.md`).
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- **`src/engine/`** the services engine: live network `state`, the account store,
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and the `Service` trait. The store is event-sourced: every change is an `Event`
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appended to a per-node log, and state is a fold over that log.
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- **`src/gossip.rs`** node-to-node replication over the logs.
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- **`modules/protocol/`** the ircd link layer. A `Protocol` trait maps raw
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server-to-server lines to and from a normalized `NetEvent`/`NetAction` model, so
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the engine never touches a raw line and a new ircd is one new module. InspIRCd is
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the first.
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- **`modules/nickserv/`, `modules/chanserv/`** the pseudo-clients, one directory
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each. OperServ and others follow the same shape.
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## Replication
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Each log entry carries an `origin`, a per-origin `seq`, and a Lamport clock. Peers
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connect, exchange version vectors, and send each other the entries the other
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lacks; a freshly committed entry is also pushed immediately, so a registration
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propagates in milliseconds. Ingest is idempotent, so re-delivery and reconnect
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after a split both converge. The log is compacted to one entry per account as it
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grows. An account registered on any node works on all of them.
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## Directory API (gRPC)
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**`src/grpc.rs`** exposes the account/channel directory over gRPC (see
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`proto/fedserv.proto`) so a website can mirror it without touching IRC: a
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one-shot `Snapshot` for the initial load, then `Subscribe` for a live stream of
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every change from that point on. It subscribes to the same committed-entry
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channel gossip does, so a change reaches a subscriber in the same push, no
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polling. Deliberately excludes anything credential-shaped (password hashes,
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SCRAM verifiers, cert fingerprints) and the finer channel-ops-list events
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(access/akick/mlock/entrymsg) — identity and metadata only. Bearer-token
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authenticated, optional server TLS. Omit `[grpc]` in config.toml to run
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without it.
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The same port also serves **`Accounts`**, the write side: `Register`,
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`Authenticate`, `SetPassword`, `SetEmail`, `Confirm`, `Drop`, `ForceLogout`,
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`GroupNick`, `UngroupNick` — a trusted caller (e.g. a website's own backend,
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already having done its own login/session check) managing accounts the same
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way an IRC user does through NickServ, minus the command syntax. The bearer
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token *is* the authorization: unlike the NickServ commands these mirror, most
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calls do not re-check the account's own password (an admin-level override, the
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same trust model a JSON-RPC integration to another services package would
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use) — `Register` and `Authenticate` are the two exceptions, since the
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password is the actual input there. A write committed this way replicates to
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every other fedserv node exactly like an IRC-originated one does — gossip
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doesn't know or care where it came from.
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## Config
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```toml
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[uplink]
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host = "127.0.0.1"
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port = 7000
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password = "linkpw"
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[server]
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name = "services.example"
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sid = "42S"
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[gossip] # omit to run a single, non-replicating node
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bind = "0.0.0.0:16700"
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secret = "shared-secret"
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[gossip.tls] # omit for a plaintext link
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cert = "certs/nodeA.crt"
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key = "certs/nodeA.key"
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ca = "certs/ca.crt" # a peer must present a certificate signed by this CA
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[[peer]]
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addr = "nodeB.example:16700"
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name = "nodeB" # TLS name to expect; must match the peer certificate
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```
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Generate certificates with `scripts/gen-certs.sh`.
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## Run
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```sh
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cp config.example.toml config.toml # edit uplink + link password
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cargo run -- config.toml
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```
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## Status
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Links to an InspIRCd uplink and runs NickServ (REGISTER, IDENTIFY, LOGOUT, CERT,
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and SASL PLAIN / SCRAM-SHA-256/512 / EXTERNAL) and ChanServ over an event-sourced
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account store replicated between nodes by gossip, with an optional mutually
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authenticated TLS peer link, plus a gRPC directory API for websites to mirror
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the account/channel directory (bearer-token authenticated, optional TLS).
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