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- From: titus@coombs.anu.edu.au (titus chiu)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: only allowing 1 irc per login/fake logins
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 01:23:07 GMT
- Organization: Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Lines: 27
- Message-ID: <1ek31rINN6ah@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- References: <Dweiss-161192175220@chiba.hughes.american.edu> <1992Nov19.191200.5801@nmsu.edu> <1992Nov20.153151.3038@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Summary: how to stop fake logins.. ideas?
- X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user on Coombs at ANU. The
- opinions expressed are those of the user and not necessarily
- those of the Australian National University.
-
- bosman@fwi.uva.nl (Cor Bosman) writes:
- >spidy@acca.nmsu.edu (Da Spidy-Mon) writes:
- >
- >>Making it so that only one IRC session is used by only one LOGIN is still a
- >>good idea. I mean, most of the BOTS that are on the net are dead bots. No
- >
- >No its NOT! Its a very bad idea. It has been said before, but this
- >would mean people will run more and more hacked clients which
- >fake the username. It also means, I could EASILY put up a user@host
- >pair for any arbitrary address, and thus succesfully locking that
- >person out of irc. Then we'll get the same shit with user/host
- >that we now have with nicknames.
-
- indeed fake user@host is becoming a big problem, especially people who
- go and use open servers that are far away (netwise) to fake a login. maybe
- a solution is for ircd to reject hosts that arent running authd and
- introduce a new line for the ircd conf file say a U:line for specific
- user@hosts that dont need to be authenticated? any ideas/comment about
- this suggestion?
-
- titus
- (Say NO to unattended bots)
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