[IRCServices] RE: my recent feature request

[Chris Jenkinson]

On Wed, January 12, 2005 6:25 am, youph at earthlink.net said:
> I would like the ability for Services Admins to be able to set a user
> password using an MD5 hash, when using MD5 encrypted passwords with
> services. Normally, a user registers a nick and provides a plaintext
> password. This plaintext pass is then hashed and stored in the db (if
> encryption is enabled which I am saying is true in this instance.) I
> would like the ability for Services Admins to be able to *directly* set
> this parameter in a nick record. I.E. I would like to be able to change
> the *hashed* passwords of users. The only command for dealing with MD5
> passwords is resetting. It would seem trivial to add the ability to
> simply overwrite the MD5 hash parameter in the nick record. The reason
> being I am trying to automate a registration process that starts with a
> web forum registration and will (hopefully) also register a nick name on
> IRC for the user. I would only have the MD5 hash of the user's password
> though, which leads me to this request.

Kind of off-topic here and out of curiousity, how do you aim to handle a
situation where someone registers an account on your website which isn't
usable as an IRC nick (for example "Hello Bob")? I've been considering a
problem like this for some time and I'd like to see how someone else is
aiming to do it.

Chris

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Chris Jenkinson
chris at starglade.org