Anyway to unlock ' in unreal ircd?

icex2005 · Post by **icex2005** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:39 am

Is there anyway to unlock ' in unreal ircd for the nickname (like 'icex) or make it so no one other than operators can use _name. Reason being I'm creating a webchat for it, and it shows people thats +a (&) as a server op in the nicklist.

Or, is there a way to restrict +a to server operators only?

Thanks.

Grunt · Post by **Grunt** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:37 am

So you're making a webchat or using another one? Because if you use one, chances are it's not meant to handle +a and/or +q modes. I reccommend pjirc. And this has nothing to do with modules.

icex2005 · Post by **icex2005** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:12 pm

Well, shouldent had said making one, but we're using this one: http://www.xtcomputing.com//showthread. ... ge=1&pp=10 but fixing all the bugs and adding our own stuff to it (since its open source).

icex2005 · Post by **icex2005** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:29 pm

Anyone..?

Dukat · Post by **Dukat** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 9:11 am

It's very easy to deny regular users the usage of _ in their nickname - use a ban nick block.

http://www.vulnscan.org/UnrealIRCd/unre ... nnickblock

Operators may still use banned nicks.

icex2005 · Post by **icex2005** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:23 pm

Thanks, but unfortunatly it's not letting me as an operator use the nick of ~icex. Says Erroneus Nickname

FiXato · Post by **FiXato** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:54 pm

so you want to change the server because your client isn't compliant to the protocol?
rather backward way of fixing things, don't you think?

Grunt · Post by **Grunt** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:38 pm

Whoah there. You can't use ANY nickname you want. It's the way of the irc protocol. All supported characters are: a-z, A-Z, 1-9, ` ^ - _ \ | [ ] { }. (The . is not included in the list). Plus, the nickname cannot start with a number.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:58 pm

The information Grunt gave you cannot be changed in any way. (Though you can, without extra effort, use 0 in your nick.) Noone, Oper or not, can use any other characters that those in nicks. However, using ban nick blocks, you can reserve other things for IRCops only.

Ex: Ban ^*, and only IRCops can use that. Then, since you are writing your own javachat (somewhat), you can program it to show that character as Server Operators.

icex2005 · Post by **icex2005** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:11 pm

I did use the ban nick thing earlier, but it still don't let irc ops use the character which is ~.

Stealth · Post by **Stealth** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:35 pm

YOU CAN'T USE ~ IN A NICK!

Grunt wrote:Whoah there. You can't use ANY nickname you want. It's the way of the irc protocol. All supported characters are: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, ` ^ - _ \ | [ ] { }. (The . is not included in the list). Plus, the nickname cannot start with a number.

(Quote edited to include 0)

You can only use those characters, nothing more.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 10:10 pm

Ban nick does NOT add letters to the IRCop namespace. It removes things from the user namespace. You can take a character, like ^ that is in the normal user namespace, and remove it. This way, opers have ^ but users dont. This only will work if ^ was already in the user namespace. Once again, there is NO WAY TO ADD CHARACTERS TO THE NAMESPACE.

JanisB · Post by **JanisB** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:50 pm

Grunt wrote:Plus, the nickname cannot start with a number.

Plus, the nickname cannot start with a hyphen.