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diff --git a/doc/user.rst b/doc/user.rst index 505e3b9..add3480 100644 --- a/doc/user.rst +++ b/doc/user.rst @@ -205,6 +205,27 @@ whole server by mistake. If you want to have a different nickname in the channel you’re going to join, you need to do it explicitly with the NICK command before joining the channel. +Authentication +-------------- + +There are multiple different ways to authenticate to an IRC service. The +most commonly used is to send some command with your password to some +special user on the server, often called NickServ. This can be done +manually by talking to this user in private and sending the appropriate +messages, or this can be done automatically using the `After-connection +IRC commands`_. The biggest issue with this method is that you need to +first be connected and logged (nick and username selected) to the server +before you can start this authentication method, and this often creates a +race condition if you need to be authenticated before joining a channel. + +A new method has been introduced to improve this: SASL authentication. You +just need to configure your password into the “Sasl password” field of the +IRC server, and biboumi will automatically authenticate when you connect +to that server. If the authentication fails, the connection to the server +is aborted. To fix this, check the error message and fix your nick and/or +password, or remove your password entirely (empty that field) if you don’t +want to use SASL at all. + Private messages ---------------- @@ -439,6 +460,10 @@ server. The provided configuration form contains these fields: - **SHA-1 fingerprint of the TLS certificate to trust**: if you know the hash of the certificate that the server is supposed to use, and you only want to accept this one, set its SHA-1 hash in this field. +- **SASL Password**: The password to authenticate with your nickname, on + that server. Authentication will be tried with the nick that is used when + connecting to the server. This is the Nickname_ field if it is set, otherwise + it’s simply the nickname specified in the first room you join. - **Nickname**: A nickname that will be used instead of the nickname provided in the initial presence sent to join a channel. This can be used if the user always wants to have the same nickname on a given server, and not @@ -448,9 +473,10 @@ server. The provided configuration form contains these fields: - **Server password**: A password that will be sent just after the connection, in a PASS command. This is usually used in private servers, where you’re only allowed to connect if you have the password. Note that, although - this is NOT a password that will be sent to NickServ (or some author + this is NOT a password that will be sent to NickServ (or some other authentication service), some server (notably Freenode) use it as if it - was sent to NickServ to identify your nickname. + was sent to NickServ to identify your nickname. See SASL password if you + need to authenticate. - **Throttle limit**: specifies a number of messages that can be sent without a limit, before the throttling takes place. When messages are throttled, only one command per second is sent to the server. |