Question about IRC accounts

[Craig Harding]

A few years ago I made an IRC plugin that ran cmds after you logged
into a specific server. I used it for basically logging me into a
password protected channel with irc key and username. I believe this
was before pidgin implemented this option for irc channels (to store
your channel password).

It didn't have an interface to change the server, channel, user or
pass, you have to add the code in the plugin then compile it. Its not
the prettiest plugin but it worked for me when I needed it. You  could
use it to maybe do what you need, without doing it manually every
time.

If you're comfortable compiling a plugin and adding irc cmds as you
wish it might be what you need. Let me know and I can find the plugin
and Makefile and send it to you.


Craig

On 2/12/10, Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 18:24, Phil Adams <padamstx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok, I'd be fine with changing my nickname for all channels under that
>> server... it doesn't have to be specific to just that one channel.
>>
>> The reason that I would like to do this is that I'm "forced" to use a
>> specific userid in order to gain access to the IRC server (it's a
>> secure server internal to my company), and I would simply like others
>> in the channels that I join to "see" me as someone else, a shorter id.
>>   It's not a huge issue... just a minor annoyance :)
>
> Aha.  That explains the strange request.
> The simple answer is that there is no built-in way to do what you
> want, but a plugin could pretty easily do it.
>
>> BTW... I've tried to set an "override" username in the Advanced tab of
>> the "Modify Account" dialog.   But that doesn't seem to work.  I'm not
>> sure what that field is for, but my IRC server doesn't use it as my
>> nickname in the channel.
>
> That is something different, it is certainly confusing that there are
> two fields labeled "Username" when modifying an IRC account.
> The one in the "Advanced" section is, IIRC, intended to be information
> about the username that you're logged into your machine with.
> At any rate, it isn't useful to you.
>
> -D
>
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