[IRCServices Coding] 2 feature requests

[Craig McLure]

thats not really any help, details of how would be useful.. if you use an SSL tunneler thou, surely it would be easier to directly connect it to the IRCd? :P

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 * From    - Dylan v.d Merwe <dylanvdm at icon.co.za>
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 * Subject - Re: [IRCServices Coding] 2 feature requests
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>I have connected my services package through an ssl connection to my ircd.
>
>Dylan.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Martin Pels" <martinpels at hotmail.com>
>To: <ircservices-coding at ircservices.za.net>
>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:02 PM
>Subject: [IRCServices Coding] 2 feature requests
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On our network we're currently taking a look on how we can make things
>more
>> secure. And while doiung that we came up with a couple of ideas to improve
>> IRCServices.
>>
>> One of the things we did is link all of our servers through SSL, and gave
>> clients the option to connect through SSL as well. Now the only thing on
>our
>> net that isn't connected through SSL is Services.
>> Are there any plans to add this to IRCServices? I didn't see anything
>about
>> it in the TODO.
>>
>> The second idea is about the encrypted passwords. As stated in the
>> IRCServices documentation SENDPASS and GETPASS won't work with encryption
>> enabled because of the way md5 works.
>> This introduces the problem that users will have to contact an Oper in
>case
>> they lose their password.
>> Would it be possible to, when encryption is enabled, change the behaviour
>of
>> SENDPASS so that it won't send the user's password (because this is not
>> possible), but generate a new random password for the user and send that
>to
>> the user's e-mail address instead?
>>
>> Grtz,
>> Rodecker
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