[IRCServices Coding] Concerns with sendpass

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Sat Jun 1 12:32:12 PDT 2002


>1) In order to sendpass, you have to be using the nick you want to retreive
>the password for.  If someone else is online using your nickname, you're
>stuck.
>
>2) When you request a sendpass, your email address is shown to you.  This
>would typically a good thing,  but this means I can go around and get
>anyone's email address and spam away, getting around SET HIDE EMAIL.  I
>suggest not showing the address if HIDE EMAIL is set, or either requiring
>the user to /ns sendpass <nick> <email>.

     Both good points, and I'll address them.  Thanks.

>3) Not related to sendpass but to AUTH: I am thinking an OS SET switch to
>suspend pending AUTH-expirys might be good in case your ISP is having mail
>problems. This might only be a problem on larger networks, but then again
>they are more likely to have their own mailserver.. *shrug*

     If this should actually happen, you could always disable NSAuthExpire
(or in the extreme case, run the executable with -noexpire) until things
clear up.

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