NickServ

NickServ handles operations involving nicknames

Registration
Login

Generally nick registration is recommended as it enables you to register channels, get/set flags, etc.. via ChanServ and keeps your nick safe. A valid email is not required. To reset or change your nickserv password without a valid email please ask in #help for assistance

Registration

Registering your nickname on ouch is simple and does not require an email address

the following registers your current nickname with password bar with recovery email foo@bar.com

/msg NickServ REGISTER bar foo@bar.com

// Same thing without email:

/msg NickServ register bar

Nickserv will send you a code to verify with. (this may change in the future if exploited)

We support the following methods of login, in order of preference:

CertFP (Best Security, Setup is more work than other methods)
SASL PLAIN (Simple Authentication and Security Layer, most common method, only as secure as the password you use)
Password Forwarding (Forwards password provided to server to NickServ. Not ideal, since your client may be unable to join channels marked as registered only (+R) while it waits for authentication to finish)

CertFP

See CertFP to set this up with your client, or check your client's documentation for instructions on how to congfigure this.

SASL

To use SASL configure your client to use SASL with your nickname and nickserv password. Check your client's documentation for details, as this varies by client.

Password Forwarding

To use password forwarding ensure you are using TLS and set the server password to your nickserv password. OUCH servers will forward the password to NickServ

Manual

To manually identify once connected with your nickname use:

/msg NickServ identify <nick> {password}

nick is optional as long as your current nick matches your nickserv account

Enforce

To Enable nick enforcement (not allowing someone to use your nick if you are not online) enable the ENFORCE flag.

/msg NickServ set enforce on

Once enabled if someone connects and uses your nick, they have 30 seconds to login or their nick will be force changed

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