Re: About SASL authentication in rcirc

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Sorry for my late response,

amk@amk.ie writes:

> June 28, 2021 11:36 AM, "Tassilo Horn" <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>> 
>> thanks for bringing SASL authentication to rcirc. I'm using the
>> rcirc-update branch of Philip for my IRC needs where Philip has
>> cherry-picked your commit implementing SASL authentication for rcirc.
>> So obviously I wanted to try that out and changed my
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (setq rcirc-authinfo
>> `(("libera" nickserv "tsdh" ,th/nickserv-password-liberachat)))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> (setq rcirc-authinfo
>> `(("libera" sasl "tsdh" ,th/nickserv-password-liberachat)))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> and restarted my rcirc session after rebuilding emacs.
>> 
>> After that, the *irc.libera.chat* buffer contained a message that tsdh
>> is a registered nick but not the message afterwards that I'm
>> successfully registered now (as it is the case with nickserv
>> authentication). And when querying NickServ, it told me that I'm not
>> logged it.
>> 
>> If I understand SASL/IRC correctly, it should have logged in immediately
>> on connecting, right?
>> 
>> So apparently, it seems that it didn't work when I've tried. I'd be
>> happy to debug where it fails if you give me some pointers what to look
>> for.
>> 
>> Bye,
>> Tassilo
>
> Hey, 
>
> Correct, It should authenticate automatically
>
> I think the issue is that some of the original sasl commit got lost in
> cherry picking. I've attached a patch that fixes it, I'm not sure if
> there is a better place to send a patch to a branch.

That was probably the issue, I didn't get around to properly test it
yet. Sorry about that.

> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>

-- 
	Philip K.