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layout: post
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comments: true
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title: "WeeChat: easy instructions for using SASL"
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category: [english]
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tags: [irc, english]
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---
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This seems to confuse many WeeChat users, so I will try to explain it more
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simply as I am repeating myself everywhere about this same thing.
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SASL is mechanism for identifying to services at IRC automatically even
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before you are visible to the network.
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* * * * *
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First set mechanism as plain if you have it as anything else. Many people
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have it as DH- something which are insecure and is removed from more modern
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services packages. More about that:
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* https://nullroute.eu.org/~grawity/irc-sasl-dh.html
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* http://kaniini.dereferenced.org/2014/12/26/do-not-use-DH-AES-or-DH-BLOWFISH.html
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```
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/set irc.server_default.sasl_mechanism PLAIN
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```
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PLAIN is simple "login using username and password" mechanism that sends
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the username and password in plaintext which isn't an issue if you also use
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SSL like you should.
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Then simply set your username and password
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```
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/set irc.server.NETWORK.sasl_username REGISTERED_NICKNAME
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/set irc.server.NETWORK.sasl_password PASSWORD
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```
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*Replace NETWORK with the name of network that you have in WeeChat, for
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example `freenode`.*
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And now after `/reconnect` you should be identified automatically using
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SASL, but you might also ensure that you use SSL.
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## Using SSL
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Change your address to use SSL port and enable SSL for the network:
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```
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/set irc.server.freenode.addresses chat.freenode.net/6697
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/set irc.server.freenode.ssl on
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```
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*6697 is the [standard SSL port](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7194).*
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Freenode has valid SSL certificate, but if it didn't, you would have two
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choises:
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1. Trust the fingerprints manually using
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`irc.server.NETWORK.ssl_fingerprint`, see [this post].
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2. Disable SSL certificate checking using
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`/set irc.server.NETWORK.ssl_verify off` **NOT RECOMMENDED**, see
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[this post].
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[this post]:../../02/24/znc160-ssl.html
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