Now its useful to know if someone with a nick is actually who you think they are. To help do this you can register your nickname.
Lets pretend our nickname is CS and that we are silly and like using the password password and our email address is [email protected]
The first step is to connect to the IRC server thats irc.utassault.net
Once on the server change to your nickname (if you havn't already set it) by typing /nick CS
If you get a warning from nickserv (a bot which looks after nicknames) then someone has already registered your nickname and u'll need to choose another.
Next step is to type /msg nickserv register password [email protected]
And then we are registered!
In future when you join the server you must Identify with the nickserv bot. So after connecting to the server and changing to your registered nick type /msg nickserv identify password
(There are ways of automating this which I will post another time)
Now suppose alot of people also call you CrazySquirrel and u'd like to switch between CS and this nick without any hassle.. Easy!
Change to the unregistered nick with /nick CrazySquirrel and type /msg nickserv group CS password
The nickserv bot has now grouped CS and CrazySquirrel as one person. You can identify with nickserv when you are named as either, and you can change nicks between them without having to re-identify. And You can have several different nicks in the group
Thats lesson #1 over for now
Remember that CS & CrazySquirrel are regged to me so you need to replace them with your nick(s)
Lets pretend our nickname is CS and that we are silly and like using the password password and our email address is [email protected]
The first step is to connect to the IRC server thats irc.utassault.net
Once on the server change to your nickname (if you havn't already set it) by typing /nick CS
If you get a warning from nickserv (a bot which looks after nicknames) then someone has already registered your nickname and u'll need to choose another.
Next step is to type /msg nickserv register password [email protected]
And then we are registered!
In future when you join the server you must Identify with the nickserv bot. So after connecting to the server and changing to your registered nick type /msg nickserv identify password
(There are ways of automating this which I will post another time)
Now suppose alot of people also call you CrazySquirrel and u'd like to switch between CS and this nick without any hassle.. Easy!
Change to the unregistered nick with /nick CrazySquirrel and type /msg nickserv group CS password
The nickserv bot has now grouped CS and CrazySquirrel as one person. You can identify with nickserv when you are named as either, and you can change nicks between them without having to re-identify. And You can have several different nicks in the group
Thats lesson #1 over for now
Remember that CS & CrazySquirrel are regged to me so you need to replace them with your nick(s)
