[IRCServices] Regarding Founder Passwords

ongeboren xxx.coder at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 10:23:03 PDT 2007


So, if your founder password ever gets compromised, no matter how many
times you change it, if there are other persons who identified for
that channel, they will stay identified and will be able to request
the new password be sent to their emails?

On 3/17/07, Andrew Church <achurch at achurch.org> wrote:
> >Say I identify to a channel with the founder password, and I am either not
> >in the room or have left the room. Is there a time limit as to when the
> >'founder access' expires, or is that data only destroyed when I disconnect
> >or otherwise part from my registered nickname?
>
>      Services keeps track of channels you have identified for as long
> as you are connected to IRC, even if you change your nickname.  (The
> assumption is that if you know the password for the channel, you're
> authorized to perform founder actions on that channel, and that fact
> won't change regardless of what other actions you might take on IRC.)
>
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org
>     http://achurch.org/
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