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  34 <PRE>Andrew,
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  36 I of course respect your ambivalence but I don&#8217;t quite understand it.
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  38 The reason I am requesting this feature is because I feel services is
  39 incomplete as is. The root user of services should, in theory (or at
  40 least in my perception of what a root user means) be able to read/write
  41 all db values inside the services database. This would include reading
  42 and writing hashed passwords (which, obviously, poses no security threat
  43 what so ever.)
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  45 I would like to further this (friendly) discussion with anyone apposed
  46 to my views.
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  48 Of course I can write my own module, but I&#8217;d rather see it implemented
  49 &#8216;officially&#8217; as I see it as a missing part of the IRC services package,
  50 which, brown nosing aside, is a masterpirce Andrew, cheers to you!
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  52 Chris,
  53 RE:
  54 &#8220;Kind of off-topic here and out of curiousity, how do you aim to handle a
  55 situation where someone registers an account on your website which isn't
  56 usable as an IRC nick (for example &quot;Hello Bob&quot;)? I've been considering a
  57 problem like this for some time and I'd like to see how someone else is
  58 aiming to do it.&#8221;
  59
  60 Well it hasn&#8217;t been implemented yet (obviously) but this is the general
  61 theory:
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  63 Pass User Name and Password values from the web forum used for
  64 registration as parameters to an external CGI script/program that would
  65 either:
  66 a) connect to IRC
  67 b) always be connected to IRC and merely take the parameters in some
  68 type of Inter Process Communication method such as a socket or via
  69 signals/files or memory mapping&#8230; it wouldn&#8217;t matter really
  70
  71 First off, the bot would have services admin privileges.
  72
  73 The bot would first check to make sure the User Name was valid for IRC
  74 and make changes as necessary (this would be non-trivial I assume) and
  75 then /nick to the User Name. Next the bot would /ns register &lt;dummy
  76 password&gt; and immediately /ns set MD5password &lt;Password&gt; with the known
  77 MD5 hash of the user&#8217;s forum account.
  78
  79 Its only possible if, of course, the ability to set a password with the
  80 MD5 hash was implemented.
  81
  82 --Matt
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