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@ -66,3 +66,42 @@ can be set by the end-user for both individual channels and for the bot as a
whole, letting an end-user set the policy he wants the bot to follow for users
that haven't yet registered in his user database.
It's really a revolution!
There are several default capabilities the bot uses. The most important of
these is the "owner" capability. This capability allows the person having it
to use *any* command. It's best to keep this capability reserved to people
who actually have access to the shell the bot is running on.
There is also the "admin" capability for non-owners that are highly trusted
to administer the bot appropriately. They can do things such as change the
bot's nick, globally enable/disable commands, cause the bot to ignore a given
user, set the prefixchar, report bugs, etc. They generally cannot do
administration related to channels, which is reserved for people with the
next capability.
People who are to administer channels with the bot should have the #channel.op
capability -- whatever channel they are to administrate, they should have that
channel capability for "op". For example, since I want inkedmn to be an
administrator in #supybot, I'll give him the #supybot.op capability. This is
in addition to his admin capability, since admin capability doesn't give the
person having it control over channels. #channel.op is object used for such
things as giving/receiving ops, kickbanning people, lobotomizing the bot,
ignoring users in the channel, and managing the channel capabilities. The
#channel.op capability is also basically the equivalent of the owner capability
for capabilities involving #channel -- basically anyone with the #channel.op
capability is considered to have all positive capabilities and no negative
capabilities for #channel.
One other globally important capability exists: "trusted". This is a command
that basically says "This user can be trusted not to try and crash the bot."
It allows users to call commands like Math.icalc, which potentially could
cause the bot to begin a calculation that could potentially never return (a
calculation like 10**10**10**10). Another command that requires the trusted
capability is Utilties.re, which (due to the regular expression implementation
in Python (and any other language that uses NFA regular expressions, like
Perl or Ruby or Lua or ...) which can allow a regular expression to take
exponential time to process). Consider what would happen if the someone gave
the bot the command 're [strjoin "" s/./ [dict go] /] [dict go]'
Other plugins may require different capabilities; the Factoids plugin requires
#channel.capability, the Topic plugin requires #channel.topic, etc.