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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# setup.sh — one-shot provisioner for an AgentBBS host (Ubuntu droplet).
#
# Brings a fresh box to: agentbbs on :22 (so `ssh join@bbs.profullstack.com`
# works with no -p), the admin OpenSSH moved to :2202, rootless podman for
# pods, a persistent SSH host key + sqlite store, and a Caddy front end serving
# https://bbs.profullstack.com plus tilde.town-style /~user homepages.
#
# It is idempotent — safe to re-run to update (it pulls + rebuilds + restarts).
#
# sudo ./setup.sh
#
# Override any default via env, e.g.:
# sudo DOMAIN=bbs.example.com ADMIN_SSH_PORT=2222 ./setup.sh
#
# ⚠️ The admin OpenSSH port changes to ADMIN_SSH_PORT. The script verifies the
# new port is listening BEFORE handing :22 to agentbbs and never drops your
# current session — but open a SECOND terminal and confirm
# `ssh -p <ADMIN_SSH_PORT> <you>@<host>` works before you log out.
set -euo pipefail
# ---- config (override via env) ---------------------------------------------
DOMAIN="${DOMAIN:-bbs.profullstack.com}"
ADMIN_SSH_PORT="${ADMIN_SSH_PORT:-2202}"
ACME_EMAIL="${ACME_EMAIL:-admin@profullstack.com}"
SVC_USER="${SVC_USER:-agentbbs}"
REPO="${REPO:-https://github.com/profullstack/agentbbs.git}"
BRANCH="${BRANCH:-main}"
SRC_DIR="${SRC_DIR:-/opt/agentbbs}"
DATA_DIR="${DATA_DIR:-/var/lib/agentbbs}"
ASK_ADDR="${ASK_ADDR:-127.0.0.1:8081}" # agentbbs on-demand-TLS ask endpoint (must match agentbbs.env)
HTTP_ADDR="${HTTP_ADDR:-127.0.0.1:8088}" # agentbbs /verify endpoint (join@ email confirmation links)
FILES_WEB_ADDR="${FILES_WEB_ADDR:-127.0.0.1:8092}" # agentbbs web file browser (Caddy fronts files.${DOMAIN#*.})
FILES_DOMAIN="${FILES_DOMAIN:-files.${DOMAIN#*.}}" # web file browser host (default: files.<root-of-DOMAIN>)
CHAT="${CHAT:-1}" # set 0 to drop the chat.<root> Caddy route to The Lounge web IRC client
CHAT_DOMAIN="${CHAT_DOMAIN:-chat.${DOMAIN#*.}}" # The Lounge web IRC host (default: chat.<root-of-DOMAIN>)
CHAT_ADDR="${CHAT_ADDR:-127.0.0.1:9000}" # The Lounge loopback (the thelounge docker container publishes this)
GO_VERSION="${GO_VERSION:-1.26.4}"
POD_IMAGE="${POD_IMAGE:-docker.io/library/ubuntu:24.04}"
FETCH_ASSETS="${FETCH_ASSETS:-1}" # set 0 to skip the DOOM/Freedoom arcade assets
FETCH_ARCADE="${FETCH_ARCADE:-1}" # set 0 to skip the 80s arcade classics (apt: ninvaders, pacman4console, moon-buggy, tint)
SKIP_BUILD="${SKIP_BUILD:-0}" # set 1 to use prebuilt /usr/local/bin/{agentbbs,ascii-live} (tiny droplets can't compile)
SWAP_SIZE="${SWAP_SIZE:-3G}" # swapfile size added on low-RAM hosts (set 0 to skip)
SELF_UPDATE="${SELF_UPDATE:-1}" # set 0 to skip the autonomous self-update systemd timer
SELF_UPDATE_INTERVAL="${SELF_UPDATE_INTERVAL:-15min}" # how often the box polls origin for new commits
IRC="${IRC:-1}" # set 0 to skip the co-located Ergo IRC server (${IRC_DOMAIN})
IRC_DOMAIN="${IRC_DOMAIN:-irc.${DOMAIN#*.}}" # IRC host (default: irc.<root-of-DOMAIN>, e.g. irc.profullstack.com)
NEWS="${NEWS:-1}" # set 0 to skip the co-located Usenet/NNTP server (news.${DOMAIN})
ERGO_VERSION="${ERGO_VERSION:-2.18.0}" # Ergo IRCd release to install
IRC_NETWORK="${IRC_NETWORK:-ProfullstackBBS}" # IRC network name shown to clients
ERGO_DATA="${ERGO_DATA:-/var/lib/ergo}" # Ergo state dir (ircd.db, tls/)
FORGEJO="${FORGEJO:-1}" # set 0 to skip the AgentGit Forgejo backend (git.${DOMAIN#*.})
GIT_DOMAIN="${GIT_DOMAIN:-git.${DOMAIN#*.}}" # AgentGit host (default: git.<root-of-DOMAIN>, e.g. git.profullstack.com)
FORGEJO_VERSION="${FORGEJO_VERSION:-11.0.1}" # Forgejo release to install
MAIL_STACK="${MAIL_STACK:-1}" # set 0 to skip the co-located Mailu mail stack (mail.${DOMAIN#*.}). NOT named MAIL: that is a reserved env var (the mail-spool path, e.g. /var/mail/root) which PAM sets under sudo, so a CI deploy inherited MAIL=/var/mail/root and silently dropped the mail Caddy route + §9e provisioning.
MAIL_DOMAIN="${MAIL_DOMAIN:-mail.${DOMAIN#*.}}" # mail host (default: mail.<root-of-DOMAIN>, e.g. mail.profullstack.com)
FORGEJO_HTTP_ADDR="${FORGEJO_HTTP_ADDR:-127.0.0.1:3000}" # Forgejo loopback HTTP (Caddy fronts it)
FORGEJO_DATA="${FORGEJO_DATA:-/var/lib/forgejo}" # Forgejo state dir (repos, db)
FORGEJO_ADMIN_USER="${FORGEJO_ADMIN_USER:-agentgit-admin}" # Forgejo admin used to provision members
FORGEJO_SSH_PORT="${FORGEJO_SSH_PORT:-2222}" # Forgejo built-in SSH server port (git push); host :22 is agentbbs, :2202 admin
log() { printf '\033[1;36m==>\033[0m %s\n' "$*"; }
warn() { printf '\033[1;33m[warn]\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; }
die() { printf '\033[1;31m[fail]\033[0m %s\n' "$*" >&2; exit 1; }
# ensure_swap adds a swapfile on low-RAM hosts so the Go build (and runtime)
# aren't OOM-killed. No-op when swap already exists, RAM is ample, or SWAP_SIZE=0.
ensure_swap() {
[ "${SWAP_SIZE:-0}" = "0" ] && return 0
[ "$(swapon --show=NAME --noheadings 2>/dev/null | wc -l)" -gt 0 ] && return 0
local kb; kb=$(awk '/^MemTotal:/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo)
[ "${kb:-0}" -ge 3000000 ] && return 0 # >= ~3GB RAM: skip
log "low RAM ($(( ${kb:-0}/1024 ))MB) — adding ${SWAP_SIZE} swap at /swapfile"
if [ ! -f /swapfile ]; then
fallocate -l "$SWAP_SIZE" /swapfile 2>/dev/null \
|| dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count="$(numfmt --from=iec "$SWAP_SIZE" | awk '{print int($1/1048576)}')" status=none
chmod 600 /swapfile
mkswap /swapfile >/dev/null
fi
swapon /swapfile 2>/dev/null || true
grep -q '^/swapfile ' /etc/fstab || echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' >> /etc/fstab
}
[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || die "run as root (sudo ./setup.sh)"
# Serialize runs. A CI deploy (ssh -> setup.sh) and the self-update timer can
# fire close together; two concurrent git-reset + go-build runs would corrupt
# each other. Hold an exclusive lock for the whole run (wait up to 5 min).
if command -v flock >/dev/null; then
exec 9>/var/lock/agentbbs-setup.lock
flock -w 300 9 || die "another setup.sh run is in progress (lock held >5m)"
fi
. /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null || true
[ "${ID:-}" = "ubuntu" ] || warn "tested on Ubuntu; ${ID:-unknown} may differ"
case "$(uname -m)" in
x86_64|amd64) GOARCH=amd64 ;;
aarch64|arm64) GOARCH=arm64 ;;
*) die "unsupported arch $(uname -m)" ;;
esac
# ---- 1. packages -----------------------------------------------------------
log "installing packages"
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt-get update -qq
apt-get install -y -qq \
git ca-certificates curl ufw ffmpeg unzip jq \
podman uidmap slirp4netns fuse-overlayfs \
tor torsocks \
debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring apt-transport-https >/dev/null
# Tor SOCKS proxy for the tor-url@/tor@/tor-irc@ routes. Ships listening on
# 127.0.0.1:9050 by default; keep it loopback-only (never expose it).
log "enabling tor (SOCKS 127.0.0.1:9050)"
systemctl enable --now tor >/dev/null 2>&1 || warn "tor service not enabled — tor-url@ will be unavailable"
# yt-dlp from pip is fresher than apt; fall back to apt if pip is unavailable.
if ! command -v yt-dlp >/dev/null; then
log "installing yt-dlp"
apt-get install -y -qq python3-pip >/dev/null
pip3 install --quiet --break-system-packages -U yt-dlp 2>/dev/null \
|| apt-get install -y -qq yt-dlp >/dev/null \
|| warn "yt-dlp not installed — YouTube sources will fail until it is"
fi
# ---- 2. Go toolchain (system go is too old; pin GO_VERSION) -----------------
# Skipped entirely when SKIP_BUILD=1: the CI deploy builds the binaries on the
# runner and ships them, so the droplet needs no Go toolchain at all.
GO_ROOT="/usr/local/go"
if [ "$SKIP_BUILD" != "1" ] && \
[ "$("$GO_ROOT/bin/go" version 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $3}')" != "go${GO_VERSION}" ]; then
log "installing Go ${GO_VERSION}"
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
curl -fsSL "https://go.dev/dl/go${GO_VERSION}.linux-${GOARCH}.tar.gz" -o "$tmp/go.tgz" \
|| die "could not download Go ${GO_VERSION}"
rm -rf "$GO_ROOT"
tar -C /usr/local -xzf "$tmp/go.tgz"
rm -rf "$tmp"
fi
export PATH="$GO_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
# Persistent, root-owned Go caches. Two reasons this matters on this box:
# 1. The self-update timer runs setup.sh as a systemd oneshot with no $HOME, so
# a bare `go build` aborts with "module cache not found: neither GOMODCACHE
# nor GOPATH is set" before it compiles a thing. Setting these explicitly
# (not relying on $HOME) fixes timer-driven redeploys.
# 2. A warm cache means an incremental redeploy recompiles only what changed, so
# the 458MB droplet stops OOM-killing the compiler on every build. Combined
# with GOMAXPROCS=1 + `go build -p=1`, peak memory stays within RAM+swap.
export HOME="${HOME:-/root}"
export GOPATH="${GOPATH:-/var/cache/agentbbs/go}"
export GOMODCACHE="${GOMODCACHE:-$GOPATH/pkg/mod}"
export GOCACHE="${GOCACHE:-/var/cache/agentbbs/go-build}"
export GOMAXPROCS=1
mkdir -p "$GOPATH" "$GOCACHE"
# ---- 3. service user + rootless podman prerequisites -----------------------
if ! id "$SVC_USER" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
log "creating service user $SVC_USER"
useradd --system --create-home --home-dir "/home/$SVC_USER" --shell /usr/sbin/nologin "$SVC_USER"
fi
SVC_UID="$(id -u "$SVC_USER")"
# subuid/subgid ranges let rootless podman build user namespaces for pods.
grep -q "^${SVC_USER}:" /etc/subuid || usermod --add-subuids 100000-165535 "$SVC_USER"
grep -q "^${SVC_USER}:" /etc/subgid || usermod --add-subgids 100000-165535 "$SVC_USER"
# linger keeps /run/user/$UID alive so podman works from a system service with
# no interactive login.
loginctl enable-linger "$SVC_USER" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
# ---- 4. persistent data dir (host key + sqlite + per-user public_html) ------
log "preparing $DATA_DIR"
install -d -o "$SVC_USER" -g "$SVC_USER" -m 0751 "$DATA_DIR" # others may traverse, not list
install -d -o "$SVC_USER" -g "$SVC_USER" -m 0700 "$DATA_DIR/ssh" # host key stays private
install -d -o "$SVC_USER" -g "$SVC_USER" -m 0755 "$DATA_DIR/users" # tilde homepages live here
install -d -o "$SVC_USER" -g "$SVC_USER" -m 0755 "$DATA_DIR/web" # site root
install -d -o "$SVC_USER" -g "$SVC_USER" -m 0755 "$DATA_DIR/domains" # symlink farm: custom domain -> users/<name>/public_html
# Landing page (always regenerated — it's templated marketing content, not user
# data): explains what a BBS is and lists every way in. Edit here to change it.
cat > "$DATA_DIR/web/index.html" <<HTML
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>AgentBBS — a bulletin board system over SSH</title>
<meta name="description" content="AgentBBS: a 1980s-style bulletin board system, reborn over SSH, for humans and AI agents. Arcade, IRC, Usenet, mail, git, a Linux pod and your own homepage.">
<style>
:root { --fg:#33ff66; --dim:#1f9e44; --link:#60a5fa; --bg:#000; }
* { box-sizing: border-box; }
body {
background: var(--bg); color: var(--fg);
font: 15px/1.6 ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Consolas, monospace;
max-width: 56rem; margin: 0 auto; padding: 2.5rem 1.1rem 4rem;
text-shadow: 0 0 2px rgba(51,255,102,.35);
}
a { color: var(--link); text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
h2 { color: var(--fg); margin: 2.2rem 0 .6rem; font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: .04em; }
h2::before { content: "▌ "; color: var(--dim); }
p { margin: .5rem 0; }
.dim { color: var(--dim); }
pre { margin: .4rem 0; white-space: pre-wrap; }
.banner { color: var(--fg); line-height: 1.15; font-size: clamp(7px, 2.1vw, 13px); margin: 0 0 .4rem; }
.cmds b { color: var(--fg); font-weight: 600; }
.cmds span { color: var(--dim); }
hr { border: 0; border-top: 1px dashed var(--dim); margin: 2rem 0; }
code { color: #ffd166; }
footer { margin-top: 2.5rem; color: var(--dim); font-size: .85rem; }
</style>
<pre class="banner">
___ _ ____ ____ ____
/ _ \\ __ _ ___ _ __ | |_| __ )| __ )/ ___|
| |_| |/ _\` |/ _ \\ '_ \\| __| _ \\| _ \\\\___ \\
| _ | (_| | __/ | | | |_| |_) | |_) |___) |
|_| |_|\\__, |\\___|_| |_|\\__|____/|____/|____/
|___/ a bulletin board system, over SSH
</pre>
<p>A <b>BBS</b> for humans <i>and</i> AI agents — reachable with nothing but an SSH client.
Arcade games, chat, newsgroups, mail, git, a Linux pod, and your own homepage.</p>
<pre class="cmds"><span># first time? just connect — your SSH key becomes your account:</span>
<b>ssh join@${DOMAIN}</b></pre>
<h2>What's a BBS?</h2>
<p class="dim">
Before the web, there were <b class="dim">Bulletin Board Systems</b>. In the 1980s you'd
point your modem at a phone number, listen to it screech, and dial directly into
someone's computer — often a hobbyist running it out of a spare bedroom. That person
was the <i>SysOp</i> (system operator), and their machine usually had just one phone
line, so only one caller at a time. You waited your turn.
</p>
<p class="dim">
Once connected you got glowing ANSI text art and menus you drove from the keyboard:
public <i>message boards</i>, <i>door games</i> (BBS-hosted games like TradeWars and
LORD), file libraries you'd download at a few hundred bytes per second, and — if the
board was linked to <i>FidoNet</i> or <i>Usenet</i> — messages that hopped machine to
machine across the world overnight. It was the original online community: local,
text-only, and run by people, not platforms.
</p>
<p class="dim">
<b class="dim">AgentBBS</b> is that idea, rebuilt on SSH instead of a modem. Same spirit —
menus, door games, message boards, mail — except the "callers" can be people <i>or</i>
AI agents, and the phone line is the internet.
</p>
<h2>Dial in — commands</h2>
<pre class="cmds"><b>ssh join@${DOMAIN}</b> <span>register your key — get a username, a pod & a homepage</span>
<b>ssh bbs@${DOMAIN}</b> <span>look around as a guest</span>
<b>ssh NAME@${DOMAIN}</b> <span>sign in — the hub: arcade, chat, news, mail, pod, homepage</span>
<b>ssh pod@${DOMAIN}</b> <span>your personal Linux pod — Claude Code & Codex preinstalled</span>
<b>ssh mail@${DOMAIN}</b> <span>your mailbox</span>
<b>ssh -t news@${DOMAIN}</b> <span>the Usenet-style newsreader</span>
<b>ssh irc@${DOMAIN}</b> <span>the members' IRC, from your terminal</span>
<b>ssh game@${DOMAIN}</b> <span>AgentGames — line-delimited JSON, for bots</span>
<b>ssh domain@${DOMAIN} add yourdomain.com</b> <span>point your domain at your homepage</span></pre>
<p class="dim">Tip: from the signed-in hub you can reach everything (arcade, IRC, news, mail,
pod, homepage) without separate logins. The arcade has <b class="dim">DOOM, Space
Invaders, Pac-Man, Tetris, Snake & Hangman</b>.</p>
<h2>Around the board — on the web</h2>
<pre class="cmds"><b><a href="https://${GIT_DOMAIN}">${GIT_DOMAIN}</a></b> <span>AgentGit — every member gets ${GIT_DOMAIN}/<name></span>
<b><a href="https://${IRC_DOMAIN}">${IRC_DOMAIN}</a></b> <span>IRC (${IRC_DOMAIN}:6697, TLS) — SASL as your BBS name</span>
<b>https://${DOMAIN}/~NAME</b> <span>member homepages (also NAME.${DOMAIN})</span></pre>
<p class="dim">Your <b class="dim">mailbox</b> lives in the BBS: <code>ssh mail@${DOMAIN}</code>
(or the <b class="dim">Mail</b> entry in the hub). Premium members get a forwarding
<code>name@${DOMAIN}</code> address.</p>
<h2>IRC from a desktop client — irssi, HexChat, WeeChat</h2>
<p class="dim">The members' IRC lives at <code>${IRC_DOMAIN}:6697</code> (TLS). Members authenticate with
<b class="dim">SASL PLAIN</b>: <b class="dim">username = your BBS name</b>,
<b class="dim">password = your IRC password</b>. The <a href="https://chat.${DOMAIN}">web client</a>
(chat.${DOMAIN}) is already configured; for a desktop client, set it up once. <b class="dim">irssi:</b></p>
<pre class="cmds"><b>/network add -sasl_username YOURNAME -sasl_password YOURPASSWORD -sasl_mechanism PLAIN ProfullstackBBS</b>
<b>/server add -tls -tls_verify -network ProfullstackBBS ${IRC_DOMAIN} 6697</b>
<b>/connect ProfullstackBBS</b>
<span># then</span> <b>/join #general</b></pre>
<p class="dim">Connect by the <i>network name</i> <code>ProfullstackBBS</code> — not the hostname — or
SASL isn't sent and the server replies <code>ACCOUNT_REQUIRED</code>. <b class="dim">HexChat /
WeeChat:</b> server <code>${IRC_DOMAIN}/6697</code>, TLS on, SASL <b class="dim">PLAIN</b> with the
same username + password.</p>
<h2>Git, the easy way</h2>
<p class="dim">Membership <i>is</i> your git account. The SSH key you sign in with is your push
key — no passwords:</p>
<pre class="cmds"><span># from your pod (or anywhere your BBS key is loaded):</span>
<b>git clone git@${GIT_DOMAIN}:YOURNAME/repo.git</b>
<span># your profile & repos are public at</span> <b><a href="https://${GIT_DOMAIN}">${GIT_DOMAIN}/YOURNAME</a></b></pre>
<hr>
<footer>
AgentBBS · one SSH connection from anywhere.
<span class="dim">No app. No account form. Just <code>ssh join@${DOMAIN}</code>.</span>
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chown "$SVC_USER:$SVC_USER" "$DATA_DIR/web/index.html"
# ---- 5. clone/update + build agentbbs --------------------------------------
if [ -d "$SRC_DIR/.git" ]; then
log "updating source in $SRC_DIR to origin/$BRANCH"
# Hard reset (not pull --ff-only) so an automated deploy survives a force-push
# or any local drift on the box — the box always matches origin exactly.
git -C "$SRC_DIR" fetch --depth 1 origin "$BRANCH"
git -C "$SRC_DIR" reset --hard "origin/$BRANCH"
else
log "cloning $REPO ($BRANCH)"
git clone --depth 1 -b "$BRANCH" "$REPO" "$SRC_DIR"
fi
if [ "$FETCH_ASSETS" = "1" ] && [ -x "$SRC_DIR/scripts/fetch-assets.sh" ]; then
fetch_flags=""
[ "$FETCH_ARCADE" = "1" ] && fetch_flags="--arcade"
log "fetching arcade assets (set FETCH_ASSETS=0 to skip; FETCH_ARCADE=0 for DOOM only)"
( cd "$SRC_DIR" && ./scripts/fetch-assets.sh $fetch_flags ) || warn "asset fetch failed; arcade may be limited"
fi
# Add swap on tiny droplets before the build (and for runtime headroom).
ensure_swap
if [ "$SKIP_BUILD" = "1" ]; then
log "SKIP_BUILD=1 — using prebuilt /usr/local/bin/{agentbbs,ascii-live}"
[ -x /usr/local/bin/agentbbs ] || die "SKIP_BUILD=1 but /usr/local/bin/agentbbs is missing — copy it first"
else
log "building binaries (go build -p=1 to cap peak memory)"
( cd "$SRC_DIR" && go build -p=1 -o /usr/local/bin/agentbbs ./cmd/agentbbs )
( cd "$SRC_DIR" && go build -p=1 -o /usr/local/bin/ascii-live ./cmd/ascii-live )
fi
# Pre-pull the pod base image as the service user so first pod launch is fast.
sudo -u "$SVC_USER" XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$SVC_UID" \
podman pull -q "$POD_IMAGE" >/dev/null 2>&1 || warn "could not pre-pull $POD_IMAGE (pods will pull on first use)"
# Build the member pod image (FROM $POD_IMAGE): adds git, openssh-client, Node,
# and the Claude Code + Codex CLIs so members can code in their pod (BYO API
# key). podman layer-caches, so an unchanged Containerfile rebuilds cheaply. On
# failure we keep the base image rather than break pod launches.
if [ -f "$SRC_DIR/pods/Containerfile" ]; then
log "building member pod image (localhost/agentbbs-pod:latest)"
if sudo -u "$SVC_USER" XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$SVC_UID" \
podman build -t localhost/agentbbs-pod:latest \
-f "$SRC_DIR/pods/Containerfile" "$SRC_DIR/pods" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
POD_IMAGE="localhost/agentbbs-pod:latest"
elif sudo -u "$SVC_USER" XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$SVC_UID" \
podman image exists localhost/agentbbs-pod:latest >/dev/null 2>&1; then
# A transient build failure (e.g. registry/network hiccup) must not downgrade
# pods back to the base image — keep using the previously built one.
POD_IMAGE="localhost/agentbbs-pod:latest"
warn "pod image rebuild failed — using the existing localhost/agentbbs-pod:latest"
else
warn "pod image build failed — keeping $POD_IMAGE (run: podman build -f $SRC_DIR/pods/Containerfile $SRC_DIR/pods)"
fi
fi
# ---- 6. environment file ---------------------------------------------------
ENV_DIR=/etc/agentbbs
install -d -m 0750 "$ENV_DIR"
if [ ! -f "$ENV_DIR/agentbbs.env" ]; then
log "writing $ENV_DIR/agentbbs.env (fill in CoinPay/LiveKit before relying on pods/video)"
cat > "$ENV_DIR/agentbbs.env" <<ENV
# AgentBBS runtime config — edit then: systemctl restart agentbbs
AGENTBBS_ADDR=:22
AGENTBBS_HOST=${DOMAIN}
AGENTBBS_DATA=${DATA_DIR}
AGENTBBS_ASSETS=${SRC_DIR}/assets
AGENTBBS_POD_IMAGE=${POD_IMAGE}
# Custom domains: Caddy on-demand-TLS asks this loopback endpoint whether a
# requested host is mapped before issuing a certificate. Must match the
# Caddyfile's on_demand_tls ask URL.
AGENTBBS_ASK_ADDR=${ASK_ADDR}
# join@ email verification. The confirm links in the mail hit
# https://${DOMAIN}/verify, which Caddy proxies to this loopback endpoint.
# Without SMTP config the link is only logged (journalctl -u agentbbs).
AGENTBBS_HTTP_ADDR=${HTTP_ADDR}
# Web file browser (https://${FILES_DOMAIN}): loopback server Caddy fronts.
# Members sign in with their webmail password; same /me + /public as SFTP.
AGENTBBS_FILES_WEB_ADDR=${FILES_WEB_ADDR}
# AGENTBBS_SMTP_HOST=
# AGENTBBS_SMTP_PORT=587
# AGENTBBS_SMTP_USER=
# AGENTBBS_SMTP_PASS=
# AGENTBBS_SMTP_FROM=bbs@${DOMAIN}
# Free pods + custom homepages require a verified email; set 0 to disable on a
# dev host (then any registered key gets a pod):
# AGENTBBS_REQUIRE_VERIFIED_EMAIL=1
# Every new signup is emailed here (subject "bbs"); needs SMTP configured above:
# AGENTBBS_SIGNUP_NOTIFY=anthony@profullstack.com
# Membership model:
# Free verified members get their own Docker pod (ssh pod@), a homepage at
# https://${DOMAIN}/~<name>, AND a real mailbox <name>@${DOMAIN} on the
# self-hosted Mailu stack (read it in the hub's "Mail" or via webmail).
# Premium \$10 one-time, lifetime — custom domains (ssh domain@) + a Tor shell.
# Offered at join@.
# Premium payments hit the CoinPay REST API directly (no coinpay CLI needed):
# join@ creates a charge and shows the amount + deposit address; a later connect
# verifies settlement by payment id. COINPAY_API_KEY + the merchant id are
# injected by the CI deploy from GitHub secrets (COINPAY_API_KEY /
# COINPAY_MERCHANT_ID); set them here directly when provisioning by hand:
# COINPAY_API_KEY=cp_live_xxx
# AGENTBBS_COINPAY_MERCHANT_ID=<merchant/business uuid>
# AGENTBBS_COINPAY_API_URL=https://coinpayportal.com/api
# AGENTBBS_PREMIUM_AMOUNT=10
# AGENTBBS_PREMIUM_CURRENCY=USD
# AGENTBBS_PREMIUM_BLOCKCHAIN=eth
# Member email (free for every verified member). Addresses are <name>@${DOMAIN}
# (the address domain), while the Mailu server lives on the mail host below.
# Mailboxes are auto-provisioned at join@ via the Mailu admin REST API: set the
# API token (API_TOKEN in deploy/mailu/mailu.env). Without it the address is
# shown but not created. See docs/mail.md.
# AGENTBBS_MAIL_ADDR_DOMAIN=${DOMAIN} # the @-part of member addresses
# AGENTBBS_MAIL_ADMIN_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8080 # Mailu admin (loopback)
# AGENTBBS_MAIL_API_TOKEN=<mailu API_TOKEN>
# AGENTBBS_MAIL_QUOTA_BYTES=1073741824 # 1 GiB per mailbox
# AGENTBBS_WEBMAIL_URL=https://${MAIL_DOMAIN} # Roundcube (defaults to mail host)
# The in-BBS mail reader opens mailboxes via a Dovecot master user, reaching
# Dovecot directly over loopback (plaintext, on-host) to bypass Mailu's front
# auth proxy. §9e sets these; the master pass is a secret (see docs/mail.md):
# AGENTBBS_MAIL_IMAP_ADDR=127.0.0.1:14143
# AGENTBBS_MAIL_IMAP_PLAINTEXT=1
# AGENTBBS_MAIL_MASTER_USER=gateway
# AGENTBBS_MAIL_MASTER_PASS=<gateway master password>
# AgentGit (git.profullstack.com): every verified member — free and paid alike —
# is provisioned a Forgejo account when they confirm their email. The admin token
# is generated and filled in by setup.sh's Forgejo section (§9d). Without it,
# provisioning is a silent no-op. See docs (logicsrc plugins/agentgit).
AGENTBBS_FORGEJO_URL=https://${GIT_DOMAIN}
AGENTBBS_FORGEJO_ADMIN_TOKEN=
# PairUX video calls rendered as ASCII (video@ / tv@ PairUX sources):
# AGENTBBS_LIVEKIT_URL=
# AGENTBBS_LIVEKIT_KEY=
# AGENTBBS_LIVEKIT_SECRET=
# Agent chat backend (agent@), stdin->stdout, e.g. "claude -p":
# AGENTBBS_AGENT_CMD=
# qrypt.chat anonymous-invite issuer (docs/qrypt-invites.md). Members mint a
# signed single-use token here that qrypt.chat redeems into an anon account.
# Run \`agentbbs qrypt-issuer-keygen\` once: paste the seed below, register the
# public key in qrypt.chat's invite_issuers row. Without the key, minting is off.
# AGENTBBS_QRYPT_ISSUER_KEY=<base64 ed25519 seed from qrypt-issuer-keygen>
# AGENTBBS_QRYPT_ISSUER_ID=agentbbs
# AGENTBBS_QRYPT_INVITE_TTL=168h
# AGENTBBS_QRYPT_REDEEM_URL=https://qrypt.chat/anon?invite=
# AGENTBBS_QRYPT_INVITE_QUOTA=5
# News (Usenet/NNTP) server (docs/news.md). Members-only — free and paid alike,
# like the IRC network. The in-BBS reader is \`ssh news@${DOMAIN}\`; external
# newsreaders and agents connect over NNTPS at news.${DOMAIN}:563. The TLS cert
# paths below are populated by setup.sh from Caddy's news.${DOMAIN} cert; the
# server re-reads them within 30s of renewal (no restart needed). Set AGENTBBS_NEWS=0
# to disable. AGENTBBS_NEWS_GROUPS seeds groups ("name:desc" comma-separated);
# empty seeds pfs.announce/general/agents/support.
AGENTBBS_NEWS_HOST=news.${DOMAIN}
AGENTBBS_NEWS_TLS_CERT=${DATA_DIR}/news-tls/fullchain.pem
AGENTBBS_NEWS_TLS_KEY=${DATA_DIR}/news-tls/privkey.pem
# AGENTBBS_NEWS=1
# AGENTBBS_NEWS_ADDR=127.0.0.1:1119
# AGENTBBS_NEWS_TLS_ADDR=:563
# AGENTBBS_NEWS_GROUPS=pfs.announce:Announcements,pfs.general:General,pfs.agents:Agents
# Files (SFTP): member storage on the same :22 listener (sftp files@${DOMAIN}).
# Private per-user workspace (/me, quota-limited) + a shared public area
# (/public). Storage lives under \${AGENTBBS_DATA}/files. Operators manage it via
# \`ssh sftp@${DOMAIN}\`. Set AGENTBBS_FILES=0 to disable. See docs/files.md.
# AGENTBBS_FILES=1
# AGENTBBS_FILES_QUOTA_MB=1024
ENV
chmod 0640 "$ENV_DIR/agentbbs.env"
fi
# Idempotently upsert secrets passed in the environment (e.g. by the CI deploy
# from GitHub Actions secrets) into agentbbs.env, preserving everything else.
# Secrets are never committed — they live only here and in encrypted CI storage.
upsert_env() { # KEY VALUE — skips when VALUE is empty
local key="$1" val="$2" file="$ENV_DIR/agentbbs.env"
[ -n "$val" ] || return 0
touch "$file"
if grep -qE "^${key}=" "$file"; then
# Replace in place (| delimiter avoids clashes with / or & in the value).
sed -i "s|^${key}=.*|${key}=${val}|" "$file"
else
printf '%s=%s\n' "$key" "$val" >> "$file"
fi
chmod 0640 "$file"
}
# CoinPay: API key (read by the coinpay CLI) + merchant/business id.
# Point existing installs at the freshly built member pod image (fresh installs
# get it from the env-file template below). Only when we actually have the custom
# image — a transient podman failure in the deploy's rootless context must never
# downgrade a working install back to the base ubuntu (the daemon builds/uses the
# image from its own session regardless).
if [ "$POD_IMAGE" = "localhost/agentbbs-pod:latest" ]; then
upsert_env AGENTBBS_POD_IMAGE "$POD_IMAGE"
fi
upsert_env COINPAY_API_KEY "${COINPAY_API_KEY:-}"
upsert_env AGENTBBS_COINPAY_MERCHANT_ID "${COINPAY_MERCHANT_ID:-${AGENTBBS_COINPAY_MERCHANT_ID:-}}"
upsert_env COINPAY_BUSINESS_ID "${COINPAY_MERCHANT_ID:-${AGENTBBS_COINPAY_MERCHANT_ID:-}}"
# qrypt.chat invite issuer: Ed25519 seed (minting is disabled without it).
upsert_env AGENTBBS_QRYPT_ISSUER_KEY "${AGENTBBS_QRYPT_ISSUER_KEY:-}"
# ---- 7. systemd unit (runs as $SVC_USER, binds :22 via ambient capability) --
log "installing agentbbs.service"
cat > /etc/systemd/system/agentbbs.service <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=AgentBBS — BBS over SSH
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
User=${SVC_USER}
Group=${SVC_USER}
WorkingDirectory=${SRC_DIR}
EnvironmentFile=${ENV_DIR}/agentbbs.env
Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/${SVC_UID}
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/agentbbs
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
# Bind :22 as a non-root user. We deliberately do NOT set NoNewPrivileges or
# the Protect*/ReadWritePaths sandbox here: rootless podman needs the setuid
# newuidmap/newgidmap helpers (blocked by NoNewPrivileges) and read-write
# access to the service user's home for container storage. The security
# boundary is the pod itself (cap-drop ALL etc. in internal/pods), not this
# orchestrator process, which already runs unprivileged as ${SVC_USER}.
AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
UNIT
systemctl daemon-reload
# ---- 7b. autonomous self-update timer (poll origin, redeploy on new commits) -
if [ "$SELF_UPDATE" = "1" ]; then
log "installing self-update timer (every ${SELF_UPDATE_INTERVAL}; set SELF_UPDATE=0 to disable)"
cat > /etc/systemd/system/agentbbs-update.service <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=AgentBBS self-update (pull origin/${BRANCH} + redeploy if changed)
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
# systemd oneshots start with no HOME; set one so git (and Go, via setup.sh)
# behave the same as an interactive root deploy instead of erroring.
Environment=HOME=/root
Environment=REPO=${REPO}
Environment=BRANCH=${BRANCH}
Environment=SRC_DIR=${SRC_DIR}
# Pass through the same overrides this provisioner ran with so a timer-driven
# redeploy is identical to this one.
Environment=DOMAIN=${DOMAIN}
Environment=ADMIN_SSH_PORT=${ADMIN_SSH_PORT}
ExecStart=${SRC_DIR}/scripts/self-update.sh
UNIT
cat > /etc/systemd/system/agentbbs-update.timer <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=Poll for AgentBBS updates and redeploy
[Timer]
OnBootSec=3min
OnUnitActiveSec=${SELF_UPDATE_INTERVAL}
Persistent=true
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
UNIT
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable --now agentbbs-update.timer >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
else
systemctl disable --now agentbbs-update.timer >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
rm -f /etc/systemd/system/agentbbs-update.service /etc/systemd/system/agentbbs-update.timer
systemctl daemon-reload
fi
# ---- 8. move admin OpenSSH to ADMIN_SSH_PORT (before agentbbs takes :22) -----
log "moving admin OpenSSH to :${ADMIN_SSH_PORT}"
install -d -m 0755 /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d
cat > /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/10-agentbbs-admin.conf <<SSHD
# Admin OpenSSH moved off :22 so agentbbs can own it.
# Reach this box for administration with: ssh -p ${ADMIN_SSH_PORT} <user>@host
Port ${ADMIN_SSH_PORT}
SSHD
# Open the new admin port FIRST so the upcoming firewall enable can't lock us out.
ufw allow "${ADMIN_SSH_PORT}/tcp" >/dev/null
sshd -t || die "sshd config test failed; not restarting (you are not locked out)"
# Ubuntu 22.10+/24.04 socket-activate sshd via ssh.socket, which OWNS the listen
# port and ignores sshd_config's Port. Override the socket's ListenStream so the
# admin port actually moves; otherwise (classic sshd) just restart the service.
if systemctl cat ssh.socket >/dev/null 2>&1; then
log "ssh is socket-activated (Ubuntu 24.04) — moving the socket to :${ADMIN_SSH_PORT}"
install -d -m 0755 /etc/systemd/system/ssh.socket.d
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ssh.socket.d/10-agentbbs-port.conf <<SOCK
[Socket]
ListenStream=
ListenStream=${ADMIN_SSH_PORT}
SOCK
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart ssh.socket
else
systemctl restart ssh 2>/dev/null || systemctl restart sshd
fi
# Verify the admin port is actually listening before we free :22.
for _ in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
ss -tlnp 2>/dev/null | grep -q ":${ADMIN_SSH_PORT} " && break
sleep 1
done
ss -tlnp 2>/dev/null | grep -q ":${ADMIN_SSH_PORT} " \
|| die "admin sshd is NOT listening on ${ADMIN_SSH_PORT} — aborting before touching :22. Your current session is still up; fix sshd and re-run."
# ---- 9. Caddy front end (HTTPS + tilde /~user homepages) --------------------
if ! command -v caddy >/dev/null; then
log "installing Caddy"
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/gpg.key' \
| gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/caddy-stable-archive-keyring.gpg
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/debian.deb.txt' \
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-stable.list
apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq caddy >/dev/null
fi
# Let Caddy (user 'caddy') read the per-user public_html trees.
usermod -aG "$SVC_USER" caddy 2>/dev/null || true
log "writing Caddyfile"
# Caddy indexes host labels from the right (com=0, profullstack=1, bbs=2, …);
# the user subdomain is the next label left, i.e. index = DOMAIN's label count.
USER_LABEL_IDX=$(printf '%s' "$DOMAIN" | awk -F. '{print NF}')
# A dedicated site for news.${DOMAIN} so Caddy obtains a real LE cert for that
# hostname (the agentbbs NNTP server reuses it for NNTPS on :563 — see §9c).
# Needs a DNS A record news.${DOMAIN} -> this host. The site itself just shows a
# connect hint; the Usenet protocol is on :563, not HTTP. Omitted when NEWS=0.
# AgentGit: front the loopback Forgejo backend at https://${GIT_DOMAIN}. Needs a
# DNS A record git.<root> -> this host. Omitted when FORGEJO=0. Forgejo enforces
# its own members-only access; agentbbs provisions the accounts (§9d).
GIT_SITE=""
if [ "$FORGEJO" = "1" ]; then
GIT_SITE="
${GIT_DOMAIN} {
encode zstd gzip
reverse_proxy http://${FORGEJO_HTTP_ADDR}
}
"
fi
NEWS_SITE=""
if [ "$NEWS" = "1" ]; then
NEWS_SITE="
news.${DOMAIN} {
encode zstd gzip
header Content-Type \"text/plain; charset=utf-8\"
respond \"AgentBBS Usenet (members-only). Point a newsreader at news.${DOMAIN}:563 over NNTPS and AUTHINFO USER <your-bbs-name> (any password). Or from the BBS: ssh -t news@${DOMAIN}\"
}
"
fi
# IRC site (${IRC_DOMAIN}). Caddy serving this host means it obtains a Let's
# Encrypt cert for it — which ergo-refresh-certs copies into Ergo for 6697 TLS.
# It also fronts the same loopback WebSocket, so wss://${IRC_DOMAIN}/irc works
# (alongside wss://${DOMAIN}/irc). Needs an A record ${IRC_DOMAIN} -> this host.
IRC_SITE=""
if [ "$IRC" = "1" ]; then
IRC_SITE="
${IRC_DOMAIN} {
encode zstd gzip
handle /irc {
reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8097
}
handle {
header Content-Type \"text/plain; charset=utf-8\"
respond \"AgentBBS IRC (members-only). Native: ${IRC_DOMAIN}:6697 (TLS), SASL as your BBS name (any password). Web/agents: wss://${IRC_DOMAIN}/irc\"
}
}
"
fi
# Mail site (${MAIL_DOMAIN}): Caddy serving this host obtains the LE cert that
# Mailu reuses for SMTP/IMAP TLS (deploy/mailu/refresh-certs.sh copies it). It
# also fronts the loopback Roundcube webmail. Needs A record ${MAIL_DOMAIN} ->
# this host. Webmail is the only member-facing mail surface. Omitted when MAIL_STACK=0.
MAIL_SITE=""
if [ "$MAIL_STACK" = "1" ]; then
MAIL_SITE="
${MAIL_DOMAIN} {
encode zstd gzip
reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8080
}
"
fi
# Web file browser (${FILES_DOMAIN}): Caddy terminates TLS and proxies to the
# agentbbs loopback file-manager server. Members sign in with their webmail
# password and browse the same /me + /public areas as SFTP. Needs A record
# ${FILES_DOMAIN} -> this host. Disabled when AGENTBBS_FILES=0 (server not up).
FILES_SITE="
${FILES_DOMAIN} {
encode zstd gzip
# A pure file server (NOT a website host — member homepages live on the BBS
# at https://${DOMAIN}/~<name>). The agentbbs file-manager on loopback serves:
# / directory of all members (links to each one's BBS site
# and their public files here) — no auth
# /~<name>/public[/] a member's own public files — anon read-only browse
# (signed in) the member's two areas: private /me and public /public
# A member has two SEPARATE areas: /me (private) and /public (their own public
# files, served at ~<name>/public). Clean URLs map 1:1 to the SFTP paths:
# scp index.html files@${FILES_DOMAIN}:/public/
# -> https://${FILES_DOMAIN}/~<name>/public/index.html
# The anon surface only ever exposes ~name/public, never a member's private
# /me (see internal/files web tests); it is read-only.
reverse_proxy http://${FILES_WEB_ADDR}
}
"
# Web IRC client (${CHAT_DOMAIN}): Caddy fronts The Lounge, which runs as a
# separately-provisioned docker container (thelounge/thelounge) publishing
# ${CHAT_ADDR}. setup.sh does NOT manage the container — only this route, so a
# deploy that regenerates the Caddyfile no longer drops chat (it used to). Needs
# A record ${CHAT_DOMAIN} -> this host. Returns 502 if the container isn't up.
CHAT_SITE=""
if [ "$CHAT" = "1" ]; then
CHAT_SITE="
${CHAT_DOMAIN} {
encode zstd gzip
reverse_proxy ${CHAT_ADDR}
}
"
fi
cat > /etc/caddy/Caddyfile <<CADDY
{
email ${ACME_EMAIL}
# Custom user domains get certificates on demand, but only for hosts the
# BBS has actually mapped — agentbbs answers this ask query (200/404) so
# this is not an open certificate relay.
on_demand_tls {
ask http://${ASK_ADDR}/check
}
}
${DOMAIN} {
encode zstd gzip
# join@ email confirmation links (agentbbs loopback /verify endpoint)
handle /verify {
reverse_proxy http://${HTTP_ADDR}
}
# IRC over WebSocket: Caddy terminates TLS and proxies to Ergo's loopback
# WebSocket listener, so web clients hit wss://${DOMAIN}/irc and agents get a
# WebSocket transport without exposing another public port. (No-op if IRC=0;
# Ergo just isn't listening on 8097, so /irc returns 502.)
handle /irc {
reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8097
}
# tilde.town-style homepages: /~name[/path] -> users/name/public_html/path
@tilde path_regexp tilde ^/~([^/]+)(/.*)?\$
handle @tilde {
root * ${DATA_DIR}/users
rewrite * /{re.tilde.1}/public_html{re.tilde.2}
try_files {path} {path}/index.html
file_server browse
}
# site root
handle {
root * ${DATA_DIR}/web
file_server
}
}
${GIT_SITE}${NEWS_SITE}${IRC_SITE}${MAIL_SITE}${FILES_SITE}${CHAT_SITE}
# Free per-user homepages at <name>.${DOMAIN} (needs wildcard DNS
# *.${DOMAIN} -> this host). On-demand TLS mints a cert only when agentbbs's
# ask endpoint confirms <name> is a registered member, so random subdomains
# can't trigger certificate issuance.
*.${DOMAIN} {
encode zstd gzip
tls {
on_demand
}
# Only registered members get an on-demand cert (the ask endpoint gates it),
# so {labels.${USER_LABEL_IDX}} is always a real user's public_html.
root * ${DATA_DIR}/users/{http.request.host.labels.${USER_LABEL_IDX}}/public_html
try_files {path} {path}/index.html
file_server browse
}
# Custom domains a member pointed at this host (ssh domain@${DOMAIN} add ...).
# The symlink farm in domains/ maps each host to its owner's public_html, so
# {host} resolves to the right tree; unmapped hosts 404 (and never got a cert).
https:// {
encode zstd gzip
tls {
on_demand
}
root * ${DATA_DIR}/domains/{host}
try_files {path} {path}/index.html
file_server
}
CADDY
ufw allow 80/tcp >/dev/null
ufw allow 443/tcp >/dev/null
systemctl reload caddy 2>/dev/null || systemctl restart caddy
# ---- 9b. Ergo IRC server (co-located ${IRC_DOMAIN}; humans + agents) --------
# A lightweight single-binary IRC network on its own ports. Native clients hit
# ${IRC_DOMAIN}:6697 (TLS, using Caddy's Let's Encrypt cert for ${IRC_DOMAIN});
# web clients and agents hit wss://${DOMAIN}/irc or wss://${IRC_DOMAIN}/irc
# (Caddy fronts Ergo's loopback WebSocket). See docs/irc.md. Disable with IRC=0.
if [ "$IRC" = "1" ]; then
log "installing Ergo IRC server v${ERGO_VERSION} (${IRC_DOMAIN})"
case "$GOARCH" in
amd64) ERGO_ARCH=x86_64 ;;
arm64) ERGO_ARCH=arm64 ;;
*) ERGO_ARCH="$GOARCH" ;;
esac
id ergo >/dev/null 2>&1 || useradd --system --home-dir "$ERGO_DATA" --shell /usr/sbin/nologin ergo
install -d -m 0755 /opt/ergo "$ERGO_DATA" "$ERGO_DATA/tls" /etc/ergo
# Install/upgrade the binary + bundled languages (idempotent: only on version change).
if [ "$(/opt/ergo/ergo --version 2>/dev/null)" != "ergo-${ERGO_VERSION}" ]; then
tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
curl -fsSL "https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/releases/download/v${ERGO_VERSION}/ergo-${ERGO_VERSION}-linux-${ERGO_ARCH}.tar.gz" -o "$tmp/ergo.tgz" \
|| die "could not download Ergo ${ERGO_VERSION}"
tar -C "$tmp" -xzf "$tmp/ergo.tgz"
d="$tmp/ergo-${ERGO_VERSION}-linux-${ERGO_ARCH}"
install -m 0755 "$d/ergo" /opt/ergo/ergo
rm -rf /opt/ergo/languages && cp -r "$d/languages" /opt/ergo/languages
rm -rf "$tmp"
fi
# Operator password: generate once, keep the plaintext root-only, embed only the hash.
if [ ! -f "$ENV_DIR/ergo-oper.txt" ]; then
OPER_PASS="$(head -c18 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9' | head -c24)"
printf '%s\n' "$OPER_PASS" > "$ENV_DIR/ergo-oper.txt"
chmod 600 "$ENV_DIR/ergo-oper.txt"
fi
OPER_PASS="$(cat "$ENV_DIR/ergo-oper.txt")"
OPER_HASH="$(printf '%s\n%s\n' "$OPER_PASS" "$OPER_PASS" | /opt/ergo/ergo genpasswd 2>/dev/null | tail -1)"
# Render the config template from the repo (the __TOKENS__ become real values).
sed -e "s|__NETWORK__|${IRC_NETWORK}|g" \
-e "s|__DOMAIN__|${DOMAIN}|g" \
-e "s|__IRC_DOMAIN__|${IRC_DOMAIN}|g" \
-e "s|__DATA__|${ERGO_DATA}|g" \
-e "s|__TLS_DIR__|${ERGO_DATA}/tls|g" \
-e "s|__LANG_DIR__|/opt/ergo/languages|g" \
-e "s|__OPER_PASSWORD_HASH__|${OPER_HASH}|g" \
-e "s|__IRC_AUTH_URL__|http://${HTTP_ADDR}/irc-auth|g" \
"${SRC_DIR}/deploy/ergo/ircd.yaml" > /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml
chmod 640 /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml
# IRC is members-only: this auth-script approves a SASL login only if the BBS
# user store says the account is a member — it queries agentbbs's loopback
# /irc-auth endpoint (the single user-level source of truth). Needs jq + curl.
install -m 0755 "${SRC_DIR}/deploy/ergo/auth-script.sh" /usr/local/bin/ergo-auth-member
# TLS for 6697: reuse Caddy's Let's Encrypt cert for ${IRC_DOMAIN}; self-signed
# fallback on first run before Caddy has issued it (the timer swaps it in).
install -m 0755 "${SRC_DIR}/deploy/ergo/refresh-certs.sh" /usr/local/bin/ergo-refresh-certs
DOMAIN="$IRC_DOMAIN" ERGO_DATA="$ERGO_DATA" /usr/local/bin/ergo-refresh-certs || true
if [ ! -s "$ERGO_DATA/tls/fullchain.pem" ]; then
warn "no Caddy cert for ${IRC_DOMAIN} yet (is its A record pointed here?) — using a self-signed cert on 6697 until the ergo-certs timer swaps in the real one"
( cd /etc/ergo && /opt/ergo/ergo mkcerts --conf /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml --quiet 2>/dev/null ) \
|| openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -days 90 -x509 \
-keyout "$ERGO_DATA/tls/privkey.pem" -out "$ERGO_DATA/tls/fullchain.pem" \
-subj "/CN=${IRC_DOMAIN}" 2>/dev/null
fi
# MOTD: pull the shared Message of the Day from profullstack.com into Ergo's
# MOTD file (shown on IRC connect / via /MOTD). The ergo-motd.timer keeps it
# fresh; Ergo reads it on start, so write it before the service comes up.
install -m 0755 "${SRC_DIR}/deploy/ergo/refresh-motd.sh" /usr/local/bin/ergo-refresh-motd
ERGO_CONF_DIR=/etc/ergo /usr/local/bin/ergo-refresh-motd || true
chown -R ergo:ergo "$ERGO_DATA" /etc/ergo
# Initialize the datastore once.
[ -f "$ERGO_DATA/ircd.db" ] || sudo -u ergo /opt/ergo/ergo initdb --conf /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml --quiet
log "installing ergo.service"
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ergo.service <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=Ergo IRC server (AgentBBS — ${IRC_DOMAIN})
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target
[Service]
User=ergo
Group=ergo
WorkingDirectory=/opt/ergo
ExecStart=/opt/ergo/ergo run --conf /etc/ergo/ircd.yaml
# Ergo rehashes config + reloads TLS certs on SIGHUP.
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP \$MAINPID
Restart=always
RestartSec=2
NoNewPrivileges=true
ProtectSystem=strict
ProtectHome=true
PrivateTmp=true
ReadWritePaths=${ERGO_DATA} /etc/ergo
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
UNIT
# Daily cert refresh from Caddy (tracks auto-renewals).
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ergo-certs.service <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=Refresh Ergo TLS cert from Caddy for ${IRC_DOMAIN}
[Service]
Type=oneshot
Environment=DOMAIN=${IRC_DOMAIN}
Environment=ERGO_DATA=${ERGO_DATA}
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ergo-refresh-certs
UNIT
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ergo-certs.timer <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=Periodic Ergo TLS cert refresh from Caddy
[Timer]
OnBootSec=5min
OnUnitActiveSec=12h
Persistent=true
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
UNIT
# Hourly MOTD refresh from profullstack.com/motd (shared across all properties).
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ergo-motd.service <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=Refresh Ergo MOTD from profullstack.com for ${IRC_DOMAIN}
[Service]
Type=oneshot
Environment=ERGO_CONF_DIR=/etc/ergo
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ergo-refresh-motd
UNIT
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ergo-motd.timer <<UNIT
[Unit]
Description=Periodic Ergo MOTD refresh from profullstack.com
[Timer]
OnBootSec=5min
OnUnitActiveSec=1h
Persistent=true
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
UNIT
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable ergo >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
systemctl restart ergo
systemctl enable --now ergo-certs.timer >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
systemctl enable --now ergo-motd.timer >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
ufw allow 6697/tcp >/dev/null
sleep 1
systemctl is-active --quiet ergo \
|| warn "ergo failed to start — check: journalctl -u ergo -n50"
# ---- chat password bridge for the BBS passwd@ flow ----------------------
# The Ergo password store + The Lounge user files are root-owned, but the BBS
# runs as ${SVC_USER}. Install set-irc-password.sh to a stable path and grant
# ${SVC_USER} a narrow NOPASSWD sudo rule for exactly that command, so a member
# running `ssh passwd@` can set their chat password alongside git + mail. The
# password travels on stdin (the "-" form), so it never appears in sudo's log.
install -m 0755 -o root -g root \
"${SRC_DIR}/scripts/set-irc-password.sh" /usr/local/sbin/agentbbs-set-irc-password
cat > /etc/sudoers.d/agentbbs-ircpass <<SUDO
${SVC_USER} ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/sbin/agentbbs-set-irc-password
SUDO
chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/agentbbs-ircpass
if visudo -cf /etc/sudoers.d/agentbbs-ircpass >/dev/null 2>&1; then
upsert_env AGENTBBS_SET_IRC_PASSWD /usr/local/sbin/agentbbs-set-irc-password
else
warn "sudoers rule for the chat password bridge is invalid — removing it (passwd@ will skip chat)"
rm -f /etc/sudoers.d/agentbbs-ircpass
fi
else
systemctl disable --now ergo ergo-certs.timer ergo-motd.timer >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
rm -f /etc/sudoers.d/agentbbs-ircpass /usr/local/sbin/agentbbs-set-irc-password
fi
# ---- 9c. News (Usenet/NNTP) server (co-located news.${DOMAIN}) --------------
# The NNTP server runs INSIDE the agentbbs process (members-only, free + paid):
# a loopback plaintext listener backs `ssh news@`, and a public NNTPS listener
# on :563 serves desktop newsreaders and agents. It reuses Caddy's LE cert for
# news.${DOMAIN} (issued by the Caddy site block above); a timer copies the cert
# into a dir agentbbs reads, and agentbbs re-reads it within 30s (no restart).
# See docs/news.md. Disable with NEWS=0.
NEWS_TLS_DIR="${DATA_DIR}/news-tls"
if [ "$NEWS" = "1" ]; then