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!storepass doesn't work at all on OFTC
Describe the bug
It's impossible to store a nickserv password or certificate on OFTC.
OFTC doesn't support using server password to identify to services, which means currently there's no way to automatically reidentify after connection blips between the oftc bridge and their network. OFTC does support cert auth.
To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Connect to OFTC. Register your nickname with NickServ.
- Tell @oftc-irc:matrix.org to
!storepass foo -
!reconnect
Expected behaviour
Nickname gets authenticated on NickServ (through certfp) on reconnection.
Actual behaviour
Nickname doesn't get authenticated, making it impossible to rejoin some channels. No error messages.
Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.
There was #459 which got closed even though the problem still exists.
#1128 to add certfp was abandoned. #1331 which was done instead doesn't fix the issue - authentication fails even with !username.
#747 tracks certfp support, but doesn't make clear that authentication is currently completely broken on OFTC.
I would close this as a duplicate of #747 or #714. Alternatively a documentation issue.
I think the current strategy may be to just wait for OFTC to migrate to Solanum and likely gain SASL support like the rest of IRCv3 capable networks.
Hi! I definitely agree with you on it being a documentation issue - it was very confusing, and I was pretty sure I was doing something wrong.
Not sure if I should mention this but I got the same issue on LiberaChat.
I tried on LiberaChat and it doesn't seem to work on my side as well. I did IDENTIFY $NICK $PASSWORD with @NickServ:libera.chat, and then !storepass $NICK:$PASSWORD and lastly !storepass $PASSWORD with @appservice:libera.chat, but after a couple of days I get kicked out in some rooms.
@TheEvilSkeleton the steps for LiberaChat are !username AccountOrLinkedNickHere and !storepass PasswordHere
Thanks a lot! Btw, is this documented? I literally didn't find anything about it.
Yes, it's documented a bit unclearly in https://matrix-org.github.io/matrix-appservice-irc/latest/usage.html
You may be interested in the issues of https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/issues/1483#issuecomment-929620046 on actual OFTC support.
I still think this should be closed as a duplicate or alternatively not an issue with matrix-appservice-irc (as the issue is in OFTC not supporting SASL or PASS)
From a user perspective (which I am) I really don't care whose fault it is, I just need to know whether it works and if yes how. And if it doesn't work or if it does work with some workaround then this should be documented of course - but from what I get from your comment it doesn't work, yes?
You are correct. I opened an issue to OFTC side https://github.com/oftc/oftc-hybrid/issues/69, which either they can fix or this could be closed in favour of the previously mentioned #747 or #714, I don't think tracking this duplicate separately is helpful towards anyone.
Hi there, it's been some time but given I had a few minutes of energy left in the day, https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/pull/1757 now exists to solve this problem.
