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layout: post
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comments: true
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title: "Quickstart with Atheme IRC Services (& forks) for end users"
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category: [english]
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tags: [english, irc, atheme]
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---
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Atheme IRC Services is the most used IRC service package. However many
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people have difficulties with registering a channel and then managing
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it, which I attempt to help with here. I start by explaining NickServ
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registration (and as a bonus HostServ) and then move to channel
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management and you just cannot talk about that without mentioning
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GroupServ too...
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## NickServ
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You won't be able to do anything unless you register your nick. This is
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as easy as `/msg nickserv register PASSWORD someone@example.net`.
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Depending on Atheme configuration on the IRC network you are using, you
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must verify your email by checking it and copy-pasting the command which
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starts with `/msg NickServ verify register` to NickServ.
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In case you wish to have multiple nicks in the same account, that is also
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easy, just `/nick AltNick` and `/msg nickserv group`. You can see nicks
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you have by using `/msg nickserv info yournick` (other people (except IRC
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operators) cannot see that part).
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Now you should be successfully identified and should configure automatic
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identification, I cannot help with it so much, but I can point you to
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beginning:
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* [freenode's SASL instructions](https://freenode.net/sasl)
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* [My instructions for SASL with WeeChat]({% post_url 2015-03-26-weechat-sasl-simply %})
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* [DuckDuckGo YOURCLIENTHERE SASL](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=YOURCLIENTHERE%20SASL)
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* IRCCloud: edit network and go to advanced settings and you will see box
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for NickServ password.
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* KiwiIRC: Check "I have a password" and type your passsword there. Ensure
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that you specified a nick that is grouped to your account.
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## HostServ
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In case the network you are on has HostServ, you can get vhosts with it.
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Vhosts appear in place of your real host/cloaked host, but
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[won't hide your IP](https://gist.github.com/maxteufel/1e2cf7ada079c271bd3c).
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There are two ways to get a vhost, take one that is offered to everyone or
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request something.
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* Check `/msg hostserv offerlist` and if you see something you like, you
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can enable it with e.g. `/msg hostserv take $user.irc.example.net` and
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running `/msg hostserv on`.
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* Use `/msg nickserv request blah` and when you receive message telling you
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that your requested vhost has been approved use `/msg hostserv on`.
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## ChanServ
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And finally to the topic which seems to be the most difficult, channel
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(access) management.
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First register the channel with `/msg ChanServ register #channel` while
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you are opped. Now you are free to setup the channel as you wish.
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I use the following templates, so I can e.g.
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`/msg chanserv flags #channel someone op` instead of
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`/msg chanserv flags #channel someone +vVhHoOirtAe`. You can also use the
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network defaults that you can see with `/msg chanserv template`.
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*This is a bash scripts which is ran like `./cstemplate #channel` and
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copy-pasted to ChanServ. It basically allows ops to do everything they
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could do anyway by being opped using services and "trusted users" have
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became regulars on channels I am on. If a flag doesn't exist on the network
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you are on, Atheme will just silently ignore it.*
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**You should see my cstemplate script here, but the embedding isn't
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working, to see it [please click here to go to the GitHub instance of it](https://github.com/Mikaela/gist/blob/master/irc/atheme/cstemplate).**
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Another example using my templates would be `/msg ChanServ flags #channel !channel-ops op` which would give op permissions above to users in the
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!channel-ops group.
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## GroupServ
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I mentioned groups a little earlier and now I am returning to them. They
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are a way to manage flags of group of users very easily by having
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all users in the group and just setting flags to the group instead of
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invidual users.
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*GroupServ is undervalued service and it might not be surprising if it's
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missing from your network :(*
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Start by creating your group `/msg groupserv register !blah` (you might
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want to register a more descriptive name).
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Next, as in this example this group is going to be op #somewhere we close
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the group: `/msg groupserv set !group open off`.
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Now there are only two tasks left, making the group op and adding ops
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there:
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* `/msg chanserv flags #channel !blah op`
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* where `op` can still be replaced with `aop` if you are following
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Atheme defaults or some other template you created or your own
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set of flags.
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* `/msg groupserv flags !blah user +c`
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* Repeat as many times as you have ops, to remove ops you simply remove
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their `-c` flag or all flags (`-*`). You will also want to read
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`/msg groupserv help flags` as there is more than I said here.
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## Futher reading
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* [Always add opers to access list (this is the $oper in my templates)]({% post_url 2015-01-10-channels-hostmask-groups-a-basic-howto %})
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* oops, did I just repeat previous post :smile:
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* `/msg NickServ help`
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* `/msg NickServ help set`
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* especially worth taking a look at: `emailmemos` & `enforce`
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* `/msg ChanServ help`
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* `/msg ChanServ help set`
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* especially worth taking a look at: `guard`, `keeptopic`,
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`verbose`
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* `/msg GroupServ help`
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* `/msg GroupServ help flags`
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* `/msg GroupServ help set`
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