Configure Xchat with Tor¶

• We assume Tor daemon is already running at our system, listening to localhost:9050. Find the IRC server’s .onion address. For example Indymedia’s is h7gf2ha3hefoj5ls.onion . Then edit /etc/tor/torrc, add this line at the bottom

  mapaddress 10.40.40.40 h7gf2ha3hefoj5ls.onion 

and restart Tor. Of course you can use any private ipv4 you want.

• Then add a new network at Xchat, say IndymediaTor, and define as server the “10.40.40.40/6697”. Be sure this network does use the proxy. Notice : If you have more than one networks configured in Xchat, that you don’t want to use Tor, then edit them and tick “Bypass proxy” option.

• Then at Xchat’s Preferences>Network add a proxy : 127.0.0.1, port 9050 (the one Tor daemon listens to ) and type SOCKS 5.

Configure SASL authentication for Xchat¶

Various IRC hidden services need SASL authentication to use it. That means you have to have a registered with NickServ nickname. Whatsmore you need to enable SASL for Xchat.

Configuring SASL for XChat: Perl script¶

This script is based on the SASL script for irssi, and was ported by Lian Wan Situ.

• Copy the script, cap_sasl_xchat.pl, into your ~/.xchat directory, or from wherever XChat loads startup scripts.
• Load the script using the /load command, or select load script from the Scripts and Plugins menu.
• The script needs to be configured with /sasl set. The network name (e.g. IndymediaTor — case matters), your primary registered nickname, NickServ password, and authentication mechanism will need to be provided. The authentication mechanism will be one of those returned by /sasl mechanisms.

/sasl set IndymediaTor myNickname myPassword PLAIN

• If you don’t mind your password being saved to your hard drive or if you don’t want to type the /sasl set command every time before you connect, you will need to do

/sasl save.

• If everything has been configured correctly, the next time you connect you should see the message:
  SASL authentication successful

To see other options available, you can run just /sasl.

Sources¶

• blog.gnu-designs.com/howto-configure-to...
• freenode.net/sasl/sasl-xchat.shtml
• lwsitu.com/xchat/cap_sasl_xchat.pl