Empathy does not auto-identify with Hybserv NickServ

[Michael]

Binary package hint: empathy

According to http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#Is_there_a_way_to_configure_Empathy_to_identify_with_NickServ.3F , Empathy should automatically send the IRC password registered to NickServ when NickServ asks for identification. This doesn't work for me on our internal hybrid-based IRC server.

I would be grateful if you could either tell me what additional information I should provide to help fix this, or provide enough pointers for me to fix it myself. (For a start, is Empathy in charge of this and not telepathy-idle?) Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 7 10:17:47 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
SourcePackage: empathy
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1499): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-terminal:1617): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_map_unlock_path: assertion `entry != NULL && entry->lock_count > 0' failed
 (liferea:2298): libsoup-CRITICAL **: soup_cookie_domain_matches: assertion `host != NULL' failed
 (liferea:2298): libsoup-CRITICAL **: soup_cookie_domain_matches: assertion `host != NULL' failed

[Simon McVittie (smcv)]

Low priority. Let's walk before we try to run :-)

Some of these things don't necessarily have a Telepathy API yet, and I suspect they all rely on the ability to recognise particular IRC networks and behave suitably.

[Will Thompson (wjt)]

Note that at least Freenode treats the server password, if set, as your NickServ password, so you may be able to work around this for now.

[Michael (michaeljt)]

Binary package hint: empathy

According to http://live.gnome.org/Empathy/FAQ#Is_there_a_way_to_configure_Empathy_to_identify_with_NickServ.3F , Empathy should automatically send the IRC password registered to NickServ when NickServ asks for identification. This doesn't work for me on our internal hybrid-based IRC server.

I would be grateful if you could either tell me what additional information I should provide to help fix this, or provide enough pointers for me to fix it myself. (For a start, is Empathy in charge of this and not telepathy-idle?) Thanks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: empathy 2.30.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 7 10:17:47 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_GB:en
 LANG=fr_FR.utf8
SourcePackage: empathy
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1499): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-terminal:1617): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accel_map_unlock_path: assertion `entry != NULL && entry->lock_count > 0' failed
 (liferea:2298): libsoup-CRITICAL **: soup_cookie_domain_matches: assertion `host != NULL' failed
 (liferea:2298): libsoup-CRITICAL **: soup_cookie_domain_matches: assertion `host != NULL' failed

[Michael (michaeljt)]

Does it make sense to generally send the IRC password to the nick server? I seem to recall that Konversation does this. That might simplify fixing this :)

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Also reported at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-idle/+bug/557119

[Simon McVittie (smcv)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Does it make sense to generally send the IRC password to the nick server? I
> seem to recall that Konversation does this. That might simplify fixing this :)

Only on networks where there identifiably *is* a nick server (if a malicious user joins a network that doesn't have a nickserv and calls themselves nickserv, you don't want to send *them* your password!), which brings us back to the problem of identifying which network you're on. If Konversation has code for this, perhaps it could be adapted.

[Michael (michaeljt)]

No, I double checked and Konversation - at least in the current version - does require you to explicitly configure a nick and a password for auto-identifying. Perhaps my memory serves me false.

[Michael (michaeljt)]

Upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539775

[Bugs-bugs (bugs-bugs)]

On freenode.net the password login work.
With oftc.net net-irc/telepathy-idle-0.1.5 fails to autologin.
Oftc only supports "Automatically Identifying Using SSL + CertFP" and as fallback "nickserv identify".
http://www.oftc.net/oftc/NickServ/CertFP

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

The actually enhancement will be in telepathy-idle, empathy will just add the appropriate interface

[Michael (michaeljt)]

freenode forwards your IRC server password to the nickserv. This is a feature of freenode, and is arguably much better than auto-identifying with the nickserv, but sadly other servers don't do this. Just for the sake of the argument though, is this really better in telepathy-idle than in Empathy? My understanding was that telepathy-idle was mainly there for providing the mechanisms and Empathy the interface, but the auto-identify hack makes use of mechanisms that are already present in telepathy-idle (basically /msg).

For the record, XChat also has a separate "nickserv password" field in its configuration, but doesn't let you specify an alternative nick for nickserv like Konversation does. Don't know if that is really necessary anyway.

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