New IRC Services

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Hey guys, we have some new services available on IRC so I'm writing this tutorial to help get people up to speed on how to register with nickserv so that A. you can prevent people from hijacking your username and B. you can be assigned a status within each channel that will be consistent each time you connect.

What the fucks nickserv and chanesrv?

Nickserv and Chanserv are part of a set of IRC services packaged under the name Anope. Chanserv is used to maintain consistency over channels, you can register a channel with chanserv and you become the owner. As the owner you can designate who is entitled to Operator status or voice status in your channel, you can set the topic and kick or ban people. Without anope you can do all of this, but when you leave the channel your ownership leaves with you. Chanserv keeps a record and will re-op you when you return to the channel.

Nickserv is used for authenticating. You register a nickname and password with nickserv like you would on any website or service, then when you connect you need to have your nickname set to the name you registered with(OTHERWISE IT WONT WORK, hence NICKserv) and identify with nickserv, once identified any priveleges chanserv has for your account will be applied.

to register with nickserv is a pretty simple process, the command is:

/msg nickserv register password email

the email you enter can be fake idrgaf. as long as the nick you're registering isn't already registered you're good, now each time you connect to the server before joining any channels you'll want to type:

/msg nickserv identify password

NOTE: Since you have to type this command EACH time you connect, Most clients have the option to set a list of auto-perform actions that are executed each time you connect automatically. In mIRC this is called the perform list and is under View->options->perform. In XChat when you add a new network, under the settings for the network there is a section where you can enter "Favorite channels"(channels to autoconnect to), Nickserv Password(pretty straight forward) as well as a few other options you should take a look through. You need to make sure that your nick and password match up. In ~/.irssi/config You will need to look for the servers() block as well as the chatnets() block. in servers() you want to add the following:

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Quote:{

address = "180.235.135.58";

chatnet = "zentrixplus";

port = "6667";

autoconnect = "yes";

}

Once you have this section added we can move into the chatnets section and add the following block:
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Quote:zentrixplus = {

type = "IRC";

autosendcmd = "/msg nickserv identify password";

max_kicks = "1";

max_msgs = "3";

max_whois = "30";

};

the max_{values} aren't terribly important here you can adjust those as you see fit, the primary thing is setting up the correct name(should match the chatname set in the servers block) and the autosendcmd, this will ensure that each time you connect you are automatically authed, you an add additional autosendcmd commands to say, /j #chill or perform pretty much any other action you would manually. To autojoin channels you can also edit the channels() block and add the following:

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Quote:{ name = "#chill"; chatnet = "zentrixplus"; autojoin = "yes"; },

id take some time to look through the irssi config if thats your client theres a number of options you can set. Theres also a wide array of plugins for irssi, a couple i highly recomend and use myself are awl.pl and nickcolors.pl, awl will display the channel name in the status bar(so you dont have to remember window 3 is #chill and window 8 is your pm with suchandsuch) nickcolors.pl assigns each person in the chat a colour so when they talk their name is highlighted in that colour, when chats get long or move fast it can help quickly identify who's speaking