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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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redirect_from:
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- /weechat-sasl.html
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- /english/2015/03/26/weechat-sasl-simply.html
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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.
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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) and trust the server (and
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**use different password everywhere**).
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Then simply set your username and password
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```
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/unset irc.server.NETWORK.sasl_mechanism
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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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/save
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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 `liberachat`._
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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.liberachat.addresses irc.libera.chat/6697
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/set irc.server.liberachat.ssl on
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/save
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```
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_Note: SSL does nothing until you `/reconnect`_
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_6697 is the [standard SSL port](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7194)._
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liberachat 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]:{% post_url blog/2015-02-24-znc160-ssl %}
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