[IRCServices] About new Version...

Andrew Kempe andrewk at icon.co.za
Mon Jul 17 06:30:00 PDT 2000


The *@* has been implemented.

How does one decide if a user is a services admin? Services kills users
before they have a chance of identifying. I think the -noakill switch
suggestion may be a good idea after all.

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Seufert" <anarki at flamebait.org>
To: <ircservices at delirious.shadowfire.org>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] About new Version...


> In my humble opinion there shouldn't be a mail server built into services,
> this could bog them down ... but instead, have services use sendmail, and
> also instead of giving users and email account, I believe it would be more
> practical to have services email a users password to them.
>
> This option could eliminate the GETPASS command. Email addresses could be
> hidden so they don't appear in a /nickserv info. Then have a command added
> such as /nickserv GIVEPASS <nick>. this command can be executed by anyone.
> Services then emails <nick> his/her password. This should make getting a
> user's password harder, if for no other reason than it is mailed to the
> user, regardless of who executed the command.
>
> Same for channels. This would provide awsome security, especially if an
> Services Admin's O:Line was hacked. The "hacker" still couldn't get any
> passwords.
>
> Actually, now that I mentioned O:Line hacking. I have another suggestion.
It
> regards akills. How about having it so that Services Root can not be
> akill'ed? In the event that a Services Admin's O:Line is hacked, there
would
> be at least one person that could un-akill any mask that was akilled by a
> hacked O:Line. Also have services deny the akill mask of *@* (if not
already
> implemented).
>
> Scott Seufert
> aka Anarki
> aka katsklaw
> Server Administrator
> NoDoze.ShadowFire.Org
>
>
> on 7/17/00 7:33 AM, Andrew Kempe at andrewk at icon.co.za wrote:
>
> > I've not really looked at this much for a while. What you're talking
about
> > would not be build into services. Services would simply use the EMAIL
field
> > of nicknames to email passwords to. If you wanted to make aliases for
every
> > nickname, then you'd have to do it manually. There are issues with this
> > because the letters used in nicknames are not always valid email
aliases.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jason at GCN" <jasonatgcn at hotmail.com>
> > To: <ircservices at delirious.shadowfire.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 4:43 PM
> > Subject: [IRCServices] About new Version...
> >
> >
> >> I noticed in your to think about section you said that a possible
feature
> >> would be to implement an e-mail server into services.  Would this
include
> >> e-mail accounts under services for every registered nick?
> >>
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