/whois username
/whois username
Hey not sure how to fix this when myself or another admin do a whois on someone the server sends a message to us saying that the user we have done a whois on is doing a whois on us is their anyway to stop this without turning this feature off
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Re: /whois username
Find in your config file the string modes-on-oper and remove the +W mode or turn it into -W
Like this
otherwise
if you are an oper with no shell access:
Uppercase W mode
That's all I can think of, maybe some users use some remote that detects when someone do a whois on them.
Like this
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set {
modes-on-oper "+wgstxvTqpJ-W";
};
if you are an oper with no shell access:
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/mode yourNick -W
That's all I can think of, maybe some users use some remote that detects when someone do a whois on them.
Re: /whois username
Thats not possible with the current code base. only the ircd the user doing the /whois on knows of the /whois request unless a remote whois is requested, then only ircds know about the requests. The /whois notification is specificlly written into the source code to send a notice to the whois target. There is no way for a user to otherwise know.Bunkerwaiss wrote: That's all I can think of, maybe some users use some remote that detects when someone do a whois on them.
Local:
user send /whois <nick>
server local to user sends targets info back to user
Remote:
user sends /whois <nick> <nick>
server retrieves login data from targets local server and sends it along with the other info the server already knows to the user.
In both cases if the user is +W the ircd local to the requesting user sends a notice to the target informing them they were /whois'd, without this notice, no one, not even the Uber Godlike Net Admins will ever know they were /whois'd.
Contrary to popular believe, the whois info is stored server side and not requested from the target, so the target can not be victimised by multiple /whois's unless the attacker knows they are +W and does it to fill their screen with notices. This "attack" for lack of better terms will flood the attacker off long before it does anything to the target.
Morale of the story? There is no practical need for +W on 99.995% of IRC networks in existance.
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