[IRC-DEV] RV: [Coder-Com] Feature announcement: ACCOUNT

[Rubén Cardenal]

Creo que nos interesa a todos :)

NiKoLaS.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: owner-coder-com at undernet.org [mailto:owner-coder-com at undernet.org]En
nombre de Kev
Enviado el: miércoles, 09 de enero de 2002 18:54
Para: coder-com at undernet.org
Asunto: [Coder-Com] Feature announcement: ACCOUNT


Greetings.  As those of you that watch patches@ are aware, in addition to
the bug fixes recently committed to u2.10.11, I have incorporated a new
feature intended primarily for use by the Undernet Channel Service.  This
feature is simply the association of a string of up to 12 characters with
a user.  This string can only be set by servers and is transmitted during
the burst.  The intent is that X will set the string when a user logs in,
and then subsequently re-login the user when it sees it during the burst,
thus making it unnecessary for users to re-login after a net split.

To implement the feature, we first implemented a new user mode, visible
only to the server--clients never see this mode.  This special mode takes
a single argument, the 12-character "account" string, and is only present
in NICK messages.  We used the mode letter 'r' for this purpose.  Again,
this is only present in the server<->server protocol, and has no relation
to the meaning other networks have given to this mode character.  The
next step was to implement a new command, "ACCOUNT" (token "AC") for a
server, such as channels.undernet.org, to set the account string.  The
account string may only be set once, and may not be reset, for security
reasons.  The ACCOUNT command is broadcast to all servers, so that it may
be queried and used during the net burst.

We have changed /whois to report the account string as well.  Various
bots may find this useful to verify that a user has logged in to X and to
discover their channel service username for the purposes of
authentication.  We are currently using the numeric 330, but be
forewarned:  This is subject to change.  This numeric is produced as
follows:

:<server> 330 <origin> <destination> <account> :is logged in as

where <origin> is the nickname of the user who issued /whois, <server> is
that user's server, <destination> is the nickname of the person the
/whois is for, and <account> is the account name of the user.  The
numeric is composed in this fashion so that bots and scripts can easily
extract the account name; I suggest that clients be scripted to display
the final argument ("is logged in as") between the <destination> and
<account> arguments.  A simple /on for ircII-type clients follows:

/on ^330 * echo *** $1 $3- $2

An announcement will be posted here if we need to change the numeric
used.  Also, please note that this feature is only implemented at present
in ircu2.10.11, which is currently undergoing beta testing and is not yet
stable.

Enjoy!
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch at mit.edu>