Allow identifying for an explicit nick in NickServ

[ap]

trafficstars

It would be nice if the identify command supported not just the plain identify <password> syntax, but also an alternative explicit identify <nickname> <password> form, which identifies the user not for their current nick, but for the nick given in the command.

The use case is when the IRC client connects and the registered nickname is already taken (often by a not-yet-timed-out dropped previous connection) and the IRC client is forced to use an alternative nickname on connection. With identify <password>, identification with an automatically sent command will fail because it’s for the wrong nick. If it’s possible to identify to a different nick, then the auto-command can be set to always identify to that nick, so it will be guaranteed to succeed.

[dkorunic]

Makes sense -- if you want to patch, go ahead and send me a pull request; if not I'll do that but really can't promise anything really soon I'm afraid :/