allianceauth/docs/installation/services/mumble.md

Mumble

Add services.modules.mumble to your INSTALLED_APPS list and run migrations before continuing with this guide to ensure the service is installed.

Overview

Mumble is a free voice chat server. While not as flashy as teamspeak, it has all the functionality and is easier to customize. And is better. I may be slightly biased.

Dependencies

The mumble server package can be retrieved from a repository we need to add, mumble/release.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mumble/release
sudo apt-get update

Now two packages need to be installed:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties mumble-server

You will also need to install the python dependencies for the authenticator script:

pip install -r thirdparty/Mumble/requirements.txt

Configuring Mumble

Mumble ships with a configuration file that needs customization. By default it’s located at /etc/mumble-server.ini. Open it with your favourite text editor:

sudo nano /etc/mumble-server.ini

REQUIRED: To enable the ICE authenticator, edit the following:

• icesecretwrite=MY_CLEVER_PASSWORD, obviously choosing a secure password

By default mumble operates on sqlite which is fine, but slower than a dedicated MySQL server. To customize the database, edit the following:

• uncomment the database line, and change it to database=alliance_mumble
• dbDriver=QMYSQL
• dbUsername=allianceserver or whatever you called the AllianceAuth MySQL user
• dbPassword= that user’s password
• dbPort=3306
• dbPrefix=murmur_

To name your root channel, uncomment and set registerName= to whatever cool name you want

Save and close the file (control + O, control + X).

To get mumble superuser account credentials, run the following:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure mumble-server

Set the password to something you’ll remember and write it down. This is needed to manage ACLs.

Now restart the server to see the changes reflected.

sudo service mumble-server restart

That’s it! Your server is ready to be connected to at example.com:64738

Configuring the Authenticator

The ICE authenticator lives in allianceauth/thirdparty/Mumble/, cd to this directory.

Make a copy of the default config:

cp authenticator.ini.example authenticator.ini

Edit authenticator.ini and change these values:

• [database]
  • user = your allianceserver MySQL user
  • password = your allianceserver MySQL user's password
• [ice]
  • secret = the icewritesecret password set earlier

Test your configuration by starting it: python authenticator.py

Running the Authenticator

The authenticator needs to be running 24/7 to validate users on Mumble. The best way is to run it in a screen much like celery:

screen -dm bash -c 'python authenticator.py'

Much like celery tasks, this process needs to be started every time the server reboots. It needs to be launched from this directory, so cd to this folder to launch.

Note that groups will only be created on Mumble automatically when a user joins who is in the group.

Making and Managing Channels

ACL is really above the scope of this guide. Once AllianceAuth creates your groups, go ahead and follow one of the wonderful web guides available on how to set up channel ACL properly.

Setup Complete

You’ve finished the steps required to make AllianceAuth work with Mumble. Play around with it and make it your own.