Thursday, August 09, 2018

PSA: Use SASL in konversation

You probably have seen that Freenode has been getting lots of spam lately.

To protect against that some channels have activated a flag that only allows authenticated users to enter the channel.

If you're using the regular "nickserv" authentication way as I was doing, the authentication happens in parallel to entering the channels and you'll probably be rejected from joining some.

What you want is use SASL, that is a "new IRC" protocol that will first authenticate and then join the server/channels.

More info at https://userbase.kde.org/Konversation/Configuring_SASL_authentication.

Thanks Fuchs on #kde-devel for enlightening me :)

And of course, I'm going to Akademy ;)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh, wow, I'm famous!

jokes aside and a minor sidenote: we spell ourselves freenode, with a lower case f.

On the spam: we are currently working on better means that do block it whilst not invading user privacy, so we hope that soon enough the registered only flag won't be needed any more.

Fuchs