Bug 48380

Summary:	Feature request: IRC SASL authentication in telepathy-idle
Product:	Telepathy	Reporter:	Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity>
Component:	idle	Assignee:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Telepathy bugs list <telepathy-bugs>
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	mihai
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Mantas Mikulėnas 2012-04-06 05:12:44 UTC

Popular IRC daemons (Charybdis, UnrealIRCd, Inspircd) now support SASL authentication with the IRC services (NickServ). This provides several advantages over server-password and the old "PRIVMSG NickServ :IDENTIFY" hack; in particular:

 * no race conditions (such as joining channels before identifying)
 * clear indication of successful or failed authentication.

It would be nice to have this supported by Telepathy & Empathy, at least with the standard PLAIN and EXTERNAL algorithms.

IRC capabilities extension ('CAP'):
    http://www.leeh.co.uk/draft-mitchell-irc-capabilities-02.html

IRC SASL authentication ('sasl' capability):
    http://git.atheme.org/charybdis/tree/doc/sasl.txt

Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2019-12-03 20:09:36 UTC

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