Hostile username?

AGA · Post by **AGA** » Sat May 28, 2005 7:25 am

Someone's trying to connect to our server with the username Stickieee. They're getting this error:

10:08 [server] -!- Irssi: Looking up irc.server.com
10:08 [server] -!- Irssi: Connecting to irc.server.com [217.172.186.14]
port 6667
10:08 [server] -!- Irssi: Connection to irc.server.com established
10:08 [server] !217.172.186.14 *** Looking up your hostname...
10:08 [server] !217.172.186.14 *** Found your hostname
10:08 [server] -!- ERROR Closing Link: Stickieee[on.kaunis.org] (Hostile
username. Please use only 0-9 a-z A-Z _ - and . in your username.)
10:08 [server] -!- Irssi: Connection lost to irc.server.com

I tried Googling for solutions, and checking the FAQ, but to no avail. Can anyone help?

Stealth · Post by **Stealth** » Sat May 28, 2005 7:29 am

"Stickieee" is a nick, not a username. The part the server is rejecting, is the username, which is the bold part here:
nick!username@host

AGA · Post by **AGA** » Sat May 28, 2005 8:06 am

Okay. He doesn't get any problems with other IRC servers though, is there some config option I can change on the server to make it allow that username?

Dukat · Post by **Dukat** » Sat May 28, 2005 10:49 am

No, you can not change that.
Tell him to use a "real" username and not only special characters...