IRC server USER/PASS in ERC

IRC server USER/PASS in ERC

[Aidan Gauland]

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Hello fellow Emacs addicts,

I have been using ERC for quite some time now, and I love it!  Now I
want to use an IRC bouncer.  I have set up ircproxy
<http://ircproxy.sourceforge.net/> on a VPS, but I can't connect to it
because I don't seem to be able to tell ERC the server username and
password to use.  When I try to connect to ircproxy, I get the
following error.

==> ERROR from irc.example.net: USER / PASS is incorrect.


Connection failed!  Not re-establishing connection.


*** ERC terminated: connection broken by remote peer

I don't think it matters that I'm using a bouncer, as this seems to be
a matter of authenticating to an IRC server (as opposed to NickServ).

*Is* there even a way to do this in ERC?  I certainly hope so, and
that I only haven't found it.

Regards,
Aidan Gauland

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Re: IRC server USER/PASS in ERC

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/11/30 Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>:
> Hello fellow Emacs addicts,
>
> I have been using ERC for quite some time now, and I love it!  Now I
> want to use an IRC bouncer.  I have set up ircproxy
> <http://ircproxy.sourceforge.net/> on a VPS, but I can't connect to it
> because I don't seem to be able to tell ERC the server username and
> password to use.  When I try to connect to ircproxy, I get the
> following error.
>
> ==> ERROR from irc.example.net: USER / PASS is incorrect.
>
>
> Connection failed!  Not re-establishing connection.
>
>
> *** ERC terminated: connection broken by remote peer
>
> I don't think it matters that I'm using a bouncer, as this seems to be
> a matter of authenticating to an IRC server (as opposed to NickServ).
>
> *Is* there even a way to do this in ERC?  I certainly hope so, and
> that I only haven't found it.
>
> Regards,
> Aidan Gauland
>
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I hope this information will be useful for you:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/erc/Connecting.html

-- 
Deniz Dogan

Re: IRC server USER/PASS in ERC

[Aidan Gauland]

Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I hope this information will be useful for you:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/erc/Connecting.html

I'm afraid not.  As far as I can tell, the password parameter to the
`erc' function is for specifying the password for identifying to
NickServ *after* connecting, not the password needed to make the
server let you actually connect, which is what I need to do.

--Aidan

Re: IRC server USER/PASS in ERC

[Deniz Dogan]

2010/12/2 Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>:
> Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> I hope this information will be useful for you:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/erc/Connecting.html
>
> I'm afraid not.  As far as I can tell, the password parameter to the
> `erc' function is for specifying the password for identifying to
> NickServ *after* connecting, not the password needed to make the
> server let you actually connect, which is what I need to do.
>

Where did you get that idea? I don't see any mentioning of NickServ in
that document.

I looked in the source code and found this:
"Use PASSWD as user password on the server."
The variable erc-session-password is then set to PASSWORD and then
when erc-login is called it sends the value as "PASS" to the server.

I'm not sure where erc-login is actually called as I'm not that
familiar with ERC myself but I definitely think the password parameter
is for authenticating to the IRC server.

-- 
Deniz Dogan

Re: IRC server USER/PASS in ERC

[Aidan Gauland]

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On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:32:41PM +0100, Deniz Dogan wrote:
> 2010/12/2 Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>:
> > I'm afraid not.  As far as I can tell, the password parameter to the
> > `erc' function is for specifying the password for identifying to
> > NickServ *after* connecting, not the password needed to make the
> > server let you actually connect, which is what I need to do.
> 
> Where did you get that idea? I don't see any mentioning of NickServ in
> that document.

That's what erc does with the password I give it.  It uses it to
identify to nickserv, and when I gave it the "PASS" for the server, I
got the error I put in my initial post.

--Aidan

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