Ansible role for Bitlbee IRC-other chats gateway

This simple role installs and configures the Bitlbee service and creates a user, configuring a jabber IM integration.

To use it specify the variables as in the sample playbook below. To generate the passwords you can have a BitlBee-style MD5 hash generated by "bitlbee -x hash ".

The AuthMode variable can be:

• Open -- Accept connections from anyone, use NickServ for user authentication. (default)
• Closed -- Require authorization (using the PASS command during login) before allowing the user to connect at all.
• Registered -- Only allow registered users to use this server; this disables the register- and the account command until the user identifies himself.

TODO

• Add SSL support
• Use ansible-vault for passwords
• Add support for more protocols in the user-conf.j2 template

Sample playbook

- hosts: bitlbee

  roles:
    - ansible-bitlbee

  vars:
    bitlbee_pass: $PUT_YOUR_PASS_HERE
    bitlbee_oper_pass: $YOUR_OPERATOR_PASS
    bitlbee_port: $THE_PORT
    authmode: closed

    # configuration for the users file where the IM credentials go
    # these will populate the xml configuration file
    # usually created by chatting with the &bitlbee bot
    bitlbee_user: $YOUR_USER
    # this password is created with RC4 hashing
    bitlbee_pass: $THEPASS

    # I only use Jabber so I've only managed to scrip this part
    # patches welcome to configure other protocols
    jabber_handle: [email protected]
    # as above, RC4 hash -TO BE TESTED
    jabber_pwd: $USER_PASS
    jabber_server: $JABBER.SOMEDOMAIN
    jabber_conference: $CONFERENCE.JABBER.DOMAIN

    # Jabber groupchats to join
    jabber_channels:
        - "watercooler"
        - "disintegrator"
        - "warroom"

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Based on the work published by Joshua Barratt https://github.com/jbarratt/