Comment 3 for bug 838557

Lyz--

It appears that, right now, it wouldn't be possible to supply the password as a server password. It looks like a new two-step sign-on is in the cards for now. See LP: #850419.

Would it be reasonable to delay all chatroom connections (where a password is supplied) until a nickserv exchange is completed? (I think it would add about 4 seconds to the connection time). Basically, this is what coalwater describes. If telepathy-idle is ever enhanced to recognize the locked nick condition we could probably revisit this.

coalwater--

During the server sign-on steps at the very beginning of the connection being established there is an opportunity to supply a password to the server through telepathy, which would use the "PASSWORD pw" statement. Different irc clients call this different things. If sent there, and if it were always correct, a later exchange with nickserv would not be needed, and the cloak would be ok from the beginning (if I understand correctly). At the very beginning the three things potentially sent to the server are:
PASS password
USER userid 8 :Full name
NICK nick
(Current line 1061 in telepathy-idle src/idle-connection.c)