BanAll Shad Bot
This is the repository of a Discord bot I've written specially for Shad's Discord server. It introduces our favourite /banall command (though it's designed to be available only in a dedicated channel) plus it helps to moderate the One Word Story channel and also is able to compile many one-word messages into complete sentence(s). Since the bot does not cache messages for further concatenating them, it can be freely restarted while other folks are sending the next messages. Pretty much many things are configurable via the bot.properties file. Requires Java 8 or above.
A security notice on running the application
According to Snyk report, the application might be vulnerable to CWE-378 (Creation of Temporary File With Insecure Permissions) which still persists in Kotlin standard library (at least at the moment of writing this README file). The bot is written in pure Java, however the sole library I am using, JDA-Discord, internally utilizes OkHttp, modern versions of which are written in Kotlin. The exact state whether the application is indeed vulnerable is unknown, but to follow best practices I would recommend including the following JVM flag to your startup command to mitigate the issue:
-Djava.io.tmpdir=the_directory_you_consider_safe_enough_for_temporary_files
An example of a secure startup command would be
java -Xmx128M -Djava.io.tmpdir=/home/deewend/BanAllShadBot/tmp/ -jar BanAllShadBot.jar
where /home/deewend/BanAllShadBot/ is, for example, the working directory
and tmp is a folder with properly configured permissions (so its contents
should be visible only for your user) specially designed for possible temporary
files.
If the machine is utilized only by you, probably it's safe to ignore this issue
completely, but I would still recommend you setting this flag just to be
sure everything is fine.
Also, I am not recommending running old bot versions before commit
65c8cf1.
According to Snyk report, there were some potential medium-scored vulnerabilities
coming from internal JDA-Discord dependencies.
Download
You can always download the latest binary here: https://nightly.link/minecraft8997/BanAllShadBot/workflows/build/master/builds.zip.
Building it yourself
This is a Gradle project, so it should be easy to import it to your
favourite Java IDE. To build the bot from the command line, do
gradlew.bat build (Windows) or ./gradlew build (Unix). Requires
JDK 8. The binary should be located in the ./build/libs folder.