23:45 <TheNeikos> Heya, someone around?

23:48 <TheNeikos> Well, in true IRC fashion I will just direct my question into the void: Can someone here give a quick rundown how to implement a basic nickserv? Is it really just a bot that listens to messages and uses some sort of auth mechanismus to allow some nicks or not? How would a bot restrict me from going into a channel with a nick I do not own?

23:49 <leftylink> hmm but nickserv needs server access to be able to forcibly change nicknames for non-owners

23:49 <TheNeikos> That means? If you mean that I need access to the IRC server that is not a problem, I own it. (Using UnrealIRCd)

23:52 <CM-Punk> Most of your IRCDs have ways of communicating with certain services packages.

23:52 <FiXato> services usually connect as a u:lined server, giving them extra rights

23:52 <CM-Punk> ^ I was about to say that

23:52 <leftylink> the reason I say that's necessary is because most nickserv impls allow the ghost command. that forcibly disconnects a user from the server (it could be a ghost session... or just another user who is using that nick for whatever reason). also some (I guess not all) nickserv impls say "the nick you just changed to is being used by someone else. You have 20 seconds to give the right password, or else I will

23:53 <leftylink> forcibly change it"

23:53 <leftylink> I'm not sure cinch is suited for such a thing. it needs to listen to all nickname changes across the entire network

23:54 <FiXato> theoretically an opered user with access to /svsnick could work, but it's not the recommended way

23:54 <leftylink> let's pretend though that a stripped-down "nickserv-esque bot" for a single channel is acceptable. what would that look like?

23:55 <leftylink> I would imagine that we could do such a thing by 1) making the channel invite-only and 2) when a authorized user authenticates to the bot, the bot invites that user to the channel

23:55 <CM-Punk> TheNeikos, what exactly are you trying to do?

23:55 <FiXato> you'd have to have it listen to server notices, and respond appropiately to them

23:57 <FiXato> but if you already run unrealircd yourself, Jnwould suggest adding atheme or anope, and use extban flags to restrict your channel to registered users only, or set up a restricted chanserv channel with an access l9st