[SOLVED] IRC/irssi password problem

[tarazed]

As a newcomer to the world of IRC I have been having a lot of trouble logging in to freenode #mageia-qa over the past two or three months and am close to putting my fist through the screen. I have a vague memory of registering with freenode:; name and nick and receiving a temporary password which I must have changed at some point. The whole business of logging in to a channel was very confusing at the start but somebody gave me an irssi config file to edit and I use that to autojoin to #mageia-qa every week. As far as I recall that process went smoothly until we were advised to change our passwords. The command:

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/msg NickServ identify <nick> <newpassword>


appeared to work fine. Edited the config file to reflect this change but ever since then the server complains about an invalid password, but

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/msg Nickserv identify <the same password>

is accepted and login is successful. The problem is I have to go through this rigmarole every time. It is now impossible to change the password at all. My impression is that the server thinks I am hijacking the nick but will allow me to use it for the session. It says that the nick is already registered and that I should choose another one. This is driving me crazy.

How to get out of this loop? I don't know any way to contact freenode. Their website does not give any clues.

[doktor5000]

How to get out of this loop? I don't know any way to contact freenode. Their website does not give any clues.

There's https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#helpfromstaff

Hope you also read https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#identify and https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup

[tarazed]

Thanks for the pointers. In fact I found that the FAQ page was already bookmarked. I shall read it more closely and see if I can get anywhere. There do seem to be time-limits imposed to cover non-use. Maybe using the channel infrequently has caused this problem.

[tarazed]

During my travails I tried /help set and then /help set password. The latter returned no information. However, I have just had a session on #freenode where the admin offered the advice

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/help set password

That did return the information that I would have expected.
Solution:

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set password <newpassword>

As simple as that. No need for /save; the server remembers the change. I tested that by logging in to #mageia-qa. No complaints about the new password.

Still no explanation of how I got into the original mess.

As an aside and warning to others. Cut and paste of long messages is frowned upon in IRC as "flooding". I had to apologize for that.

[doktor5000]

As an aside and warning to others. Cut and paste of long messages is frowned upon in IRC as "flooding". I had to apologize for that.

Most IRC clients will warn you about floodin, before allowing to paste - which is a good thing! Everything which is more then one line will be considered flooding usually.