authentications modifications to ircd using mysql

this project will most likely be quite easy for someone proficient in C. if you have knowledge of IRC (internet relay chat) it will help as the concept of the connection to a server and the various parameters won't be foreign... but it's a basic client/server idea. it requires modifying ircd (preferrably an efnet variant - hybrid 6, hybrid 7 or cs-ircd) and making it require password authentication off a mysql server. so it will require using mysql API and modifying the Makefile to compile in mysql libs. the more thorough the better - i want it to be somewhat configurable (the query configrable at least...) and if the configure script could even be modified to detect mysql libraries.. etc. in the config.h for the IRCD, i would like: mysql username mysql password mysql hostname mysql database name mysql query (with two variable tags %%username%% and %%password%% or something) - so i can easily edit the query anytime without editing the actual mysql query call. on connection to the IRC server, the IRCD will open a non-persistent connection to the mysql server, and replace %%username%% and %%password%% in the query defined in config.h with the nickname/password the user has supplied on connection. if the query returns a row, the user is authenticated. otherwise the user is not allowed to connect (throw whatever error handling the IRCD has already to say "no access") one other thing if the ability to change nicknames is disabled in the IRCD it would be great. that would take less than five minutes to hack out i'm sure. i am highly proficient in PHP and understand programming concepts but pointers in C and library linking would be too much of a challenge and i don't have the time nor patience to learn it right now. so you will be working with someone technical. ## Deliverables 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Installation package that will install the software (in ready-to-run condition) on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) Complete ownership and distribution copyrights to all work purchased. 4) Would like to establish good working relationship, might have other requests later on. ## Platform Linux and FreeBSD would really be the only requirements. IRCD compiles on these fine already as does MySQL, combining the MySQL library into IRCD and tweaking the source code shouldn't be too platform-specific. ## Deadline information the timeframe isn't completely strict. may be able to barter goods and services as well. if you bid, we can talk about it via email.