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# Setting up the tilde.club shell server
# Setting up the `tilde.club` shell server (user host)
We want to document the ins and outs of setting up the server, so that others who're interested can learn (and help!).
We want to document the ins and outs of setting up the server so others who are interested can learn (and help!).
## System setup
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## Email
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 emails which local users try to send off-server. Both configuration changes are handled in `/etc/postfix/main.cf`.
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`.
* the `inet_interfaces` parameter should just be localhost (`inet_interfaces = localhost`)
* the `inet_interfaces` value should just be `localhost` (`inet_interfaces = localhost`)
* 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)
## Identd
## `identd`
If users are going to connect from their shell account to an IRC server, then it's *very* handy to have an identd server running. For us, that just meant installing the standard CentOS identd server, and then configuring it to startup automatically:
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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sudo apt-get install identd