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# Setting up the `tilde.club` shell server (user host)
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We want to document the ins and outs of setting up the server so others who are interested can learn (and help!).
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## System setup
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This part is for @ftrain.
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## Email
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The default MTA on CentOS is `postfix`. Our goal was to have a `localhost`-only mail service, which required that we configure `postfix` to listen only to `localhost`, and to bounce any email which local users try to send off-server. Both configuration changes are handled in `/etc/postfix/main.cf`.
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* the `inet_interfaces` value should just be `localhost` (`inet_interfaces = localhost`)
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* the `default_transport` parameter should be the bounce message we want (so add `default_transport = error: outside mail is not deliverable` to the bottom of the file)
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## `identd`
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Users will connect from their shell account to an IRC server, so it is *very* handy to have an `identd` server. For us that just meant installing the standard CentOS `identd` server and configuring it to start automatically:
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```
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sudo apt-get install identd
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sudo /etc/init.d/oidentd start
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sudo chkconfig oidentd on
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```
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