[IRCServices] nick kill on nick change?

[Eric Harrison]

in probably everycase other then mine I would completely agree with you.
But, i have this running in a call center and I am try to opress the 
lowly phone jockeys from abuse.  The whole server is restricted, no
arbitrary channels, no join unless registered, no voice unless the nick 
is authorized (by access list).  So i want to take away the right to
change the nick when auth'd so that users adhere to the strict naming
convention wihout intervention on my part. (make my life easier).

Anyways, thanks for the tip.  I run UnrealIRCD 3.1 so if you happen
to know how to on that daemon, the help would be appreciated.

Thanks
-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Yusuf Iskenderoglu [mailto:uhc0 at rz.uni-karlsruhe.de]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:29 PM
To: IRC Services General Mailing List
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] nick kill on nick change?


Hello;

Generally, such a change may be done by modifying your irc server, so
that nick changes while the user exist cannot be done by identified
(mostly UMODE_r) users.

On the other hand, even if you manage this only on services side, you
take _away_ the "right" to change nicks, and therefore "hide" from
disturbing users from a certain group of people, the registered users,
so that unregistered users may continously change their nicknames, and
disturb others, and the registered users cannot defeat themselves by
changing nicks.

You must consider this as an annoying "Feature" should you really
implement this. Assumptions about ignore lists may exist, but ignore
lists are eventually too small, if it comes to terms of a DDOS attack of
nick changing bots which privmsg your users...

Regards;
yusuf



On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 01:02, Eric Harrison wrote:
> is there a way to disallow nick changes?  Have nickserv force them back to
> the registered nick if they change it?
> 
> Thanks
> Eric Harrison
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