I got this idea (from this blog post) that it would be cool and great if we had an IRC server to facilitate communication within our team.  I started checking out some different IRC servers to see which ones supported the main features I wanted (LDAP auth & SSL).  I started out with ratbox but I didn’t really like it.  I found InspIRCd and after some config tweaking it’s working well.  Here’s the info from modules.conf for authentication against Active Directory (so people login with their AD usernames):

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<module name="m_ldapauth.so">
   <ldapauth baserdn="OU=Users,DC=example,DC=com"
   attribute="sAMAccountName"
   server="ldap://activedirectory.example.com"
   killreason="LDAP auth failed"
   searchscope="subtree"
   binddn="CN=binduser,OU=Users,DC=example,DC=com"
   bindauth="password"
   verbose="yes"
   userfield="yes">

Here’s the configure line (since I had to build from source):

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/inspircd --enable-gnutls --uid 101 --enable-extras=m_ldapauth.cpp --enable-extras=m_ldapoper.cpp

I still have some more customization to do to make ChanServ work, but since this is internal I don’t know if that even matters.  Also I can’t seem to get SSL working – I tried compiling with –enable-openssl but that failed, so I went with –enable-gnutls, which worked, but I can’t connect via ircs:// in my client.  If it looks like people are interested in this I may fix it up, but I have a feeling most people won’t be as enthused about it as I am.