Nick:Password support for irc protocol

[Guillermo Gutiérrez]

I think it would be great to be a bool config item in irc accounts for toggle between
  "PASS mypassword"
and
  "NICK mynick:mypassword"
ways of authentication.

[Guillermo Gutiérrez (capitanterrex)]

This patch is working for me. Please mind using better solution.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Luke, what does upstream think about that?

[Mark Doliner (thekingant)]

Is "NICK mynick:mypassword" specified in one of the IRC RFCs? Do many IRC servers use that syntax? How do other IRC clients handle this?

[Richard Laager (rlaager)]

Also, that patch doesn't do any buffer size checking on the string manipulation. Of course, fixing that is trivial, but unless this is specified in a standard somewhere, it's not likely to be accepted upstre

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

we will not ship that as a distribution patch if it's not accepted upstream

[Guillermo Gutiérrez (capitanterrex)]

Yes, I think that is not standar, so should not be implemented in gaim. ¿Maybe as a little plugin? :s

[Guillermo Gutiérrez (capitanterrex)]

(or included in gaim-irchelper)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Guillermo could you reply to the questions from Mark?

[Guillermo Gutiérrez (capitanterrex)]

I think it is "standard in fact" on ircd servers enhanced with databases. This way, the passwords of nicks are saved directly on a main database or on a distributed database between ircd nodes (in md5, crc32,...). Then, when bot service's node fall down, authentication of nicks continues working (other advantage is that you don't need to send /msg nickserv identify pass to login).

I know this servers and this spanish networks:
ircu -> irc.irc-hispano.org
unrealircd+udb -> irc.redmundial.org

In irc clients, per example in mIRC, it is neccesary to configure your nickname as nick:pass simply (pass in plain text, sure).

To login, users type /nick nick:pass and then, /server irc-server
To kill ghosted nicks type /nick nick!pass and then /server irc-server

What do you think?

[Guillermo Gutiérrez (capitanterrex)]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that when the node authenticates the user, it gives to the user the +r mode.

[Guillermo Gutiérrez (capitanterrex)]

Aplied on 2.0.0beta3.
Do "NICK mynick:mypass" and remove multiple oper-modes on a nick; futhermore founder modes are added ('.' in unrealircd+udb and '~' in ircu).

[Guillermo Gutiérrez (capitanterrex)]

Applied on 2.0.0beta3.
Surround the nick:pass code by a conditional to do not try to concatenate empty password strings.

[Luke Schierer (lschiere)]

This is the sort of thing that is more likely to go into a plugin such as gaim-irchelper than into the irc protocol plugin itself.

[Guillermo Gutiérrez (capitanterrex)]

Yes, you are rigth. It is better to do not code this if there is not a standard.