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ok one of our ircop banned a nick. this ircop has left and i been trying to unban the nick, but havent gotten anywhere with it...

this is what happens when you try to go on this nick:

* Your nick is now TheMagic
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-NickServ- This nickname may not be used. Please choose another one.
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-NickServ- Your nickname is now being changed to IRCLover9376684
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* Your nick is now IRCLover9376684

ne suggestions?

Thanks

This looks to be a services issue, and so probably should've been in the services forum.

At any rate, as a service admin you can remove this "ban" by using /nickserv drop <nickname>.

sorry bout that... if someone could move this to the rite forum that be great...

i tried the drop command but i get this:

-NickServ- Access denied.

which is wierd cuz im a netadmin

Moved

newaki wrote:which is wierd cuz im a netadmin

Services don't really care if you are a netadmin. You need to have the correct privileges in the services.

What services package are you using anyway?
How did you try to drop the nick (and what nick were you using)? How was it banned?

no sure what services we are running.

/nickserv drop TheMagic

When doin this command im on my nick (newaki).

im not really sure how it was banned, it was banned by another ircop that no longer works for us.

(btw. what privileges do i need in order to excute this command?)

You usually need to be at least a "services admin" (in the services, not the IRCd).

update: we fixed the nick issue, but me and the other guy that basically run the the place couldnt edit services.conf to add ourselfs....

can ne1 shed some light on that...

"through ftp it gave the message 550 services.conf: Permission denied"
"through cPanel, it said it saved the changes but didnt"

Thanks again

How exactly are you running your irc services? Just SSH to the box and edit the file!

newaki wrote:update: we fixed the nick issue, but me and the other guy that basically run the the place couldnt edit services.conf to add ourselfs....

Depending on the services being used you shouldn't have to. Editing services.conf is usually only needed when adding a services root user and those accounts should be used very sparsely.

When it comes to managing nicknames an admin account should be more than enough.

well the server we run, is used for a forum thats it. the owner of the forum and irc server has us and4 other users run it thats all... but hes not always on so we need the privielages set but like i said above we keep running into the problem where we cant edit the file too add us in.

I think you'll have to wait for him.
It would be kinda strange if anyone could just add themselves and give themselves oper privileges...