[IRCServices Coding] Re: [IRCServices] Services 4.5.38 released

[Andrew Church]

>What actually causes this?  I'm not familiar with this problem, could
>someone explain?

     If someone takes a guest nick that Services then tries to assign to a
user with SVSNICK, the ircd will send a KILL for the SVSNICK, but Services
interprets that as a KILL for the old user, who then disappears from the
internal user list.  Since Services won't do anything with users who aren't
on the internal list (since it doesn't have anywhere to store the info),
they never get killed/ghosted, deopped, etc.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>-- Ben Goldstein (beng at nc.rr.com)
>
>> Also, it has been reported and confirmed that failure to install Q:lines
>on
>> all of your servers when nick changing (NSForceNickChange) is in use can
>> allow users to escape Services' notice and use others' nicks without fear
>> of retaliation via nick kills or the GHOST command.  A workaround is being
>> worked on for version 5.0; in the meantime, make sure you have Q:lines
>> installed on all of your servers for "Guest*" (or whatever you use for
>> guest nicks).
>
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