Installing an identd on DogFish

[Robert Leverington]

Hi,

Sorry if this is not of interest to many people, but we currently don't
have anywhere else to put this and discussion needs to be out in the
open (hopefully there will be a separate list for this soon).

Are there any objections to installing an identd on DogFish, several
members currently use it as an IRC client and this would help ensure
disruption would be minimal should a user be banned from a channel or
even a whole network?  Furthermore it is generally good practice on
multi-user systems.

--
Robert Leverington
http://rhl.me.uk/

[Stephen Mount-2]

Just press apt-get install identd or whatever it is.

On 28 Jul 2009, at 20:56, Robert Leverington wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry if this is not of interest to many people, but we currently  
> don't
> have anywhere else to put this and discussion needs to be out in the
> open (hopefully there will be a separate list for this soon).
>
> Are there any objections to installing an identd on DogFish, several
> members currently use it as an IRC client and this would help ensure
> disruption would be minimal should a user be banned from a channel or
> even a whole network?  Furthermore it is generally good practice on
> multi-user systems.
>
> --
> Robert Leverington
> http://rhl.me.uk/

[Robert Leverington]

On 2009-07-28, Stephen Mount wrote:
> Just press apt-get install identd or whatever it is.

I know perfectly well how to install an identd, but it is not any single
individuals place to make decisions.

--
Robert Leverington
http://rhl.me.uk/

[Isabell Long]

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On 28/07/2009, Robert Leverington <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Are there any objections to installing an identd on DogFish, several
> members currently use it as an IRC client and this would help ensure
> disruption would be minimal should a user be banned from a channel or
> even a whole network?  Furthermore it is generally good practice on
> multi-user systems.

I have no objections, it would be good to have it as then I guess it
would mean that if one person got banned whilst on the server the
other people who use it and who have not been banned could continue to
use IRC?  If that made any sense at all?

Good idea, thanks Robert.

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[Robert Leverington]

On 2009-07-28, Isabell Long wrote:
> I have no objections, it would be good to have it as then I guess it
> would mean that if one person got banned whilst on the server the
> other people who use it and who have not been banned could continue to
> use IRC?  If that made any sense at all?

Providing the person implementing the ban used the correct syntax, yes.
Even if they don't use the correct syntax then it lets us present a
solution to them if it affects another user.

--
Robert Leverington
http://rhl.me.uk/

[Tim Dobson-2]

Robert Leverington wrote:
> Are there any objections to installing an identd on DogFish, several
> members currently use it as an IRC client and this would help ensure
> disruption would be minimal should a user be banned from a channel or
> even a whole network?  Furthermore it is generally good practice on
> multi-user systems.

What IS it?

But if it's todo with IRC, I can't see any particularly issues from my
point of view.

Presumably the teamdogfish alias could be used for disussion of this
nature.

I'll try and get a real mailing list setup though ASAP if it'd be helpful..

Tim

[Robert Leverington]

On 2009-07-28, Tim Dobson wrote:
> Robert Leverington wrote:
>> Are there any objections to installing an identd on DogFish, several
>> members currently use it as an IRC client and this would help ensure
>> disruption would be minimal should a user be banned from a channel or
>> even a whole network?  Furthermore it is generally good practice on
>> multi-user systems.
>
> What IS it?

identd provides a way for external servers to identify which particular
user on DogFish is connecting to their server, so they don't have to
block the whole system.

> But if it's todo with IRC, I can't see any particularly issues from my  
> point of view.

Seems to be generally accepted, will implement.

> Presumably the teamdogfish alias could be used for disussion of this  
> nature.

Perhaps, but a lot of discussion might be relevant to both users and
roots.

> I'll try and get a real mailing list setup though ASAP if it'd be helpful..

I was thinking of just using dfey-general-discuss or whatever for it, as
the "core" members who it will be relevant to will be on it and people
just interested on happenings in their area won't.  But a mailing list
specifcally for DogFish would work well too I suppose.

--
Robert Leverington
http://rhl.me.uk/

[Tim Dobson-2]

Robert Leverington wrote:

>> Presumably the teamdogfish alias could be used for disussion of this  
>> nature.
>
> Perhaps, but a lot of discussion might be relevant to both users and
> roots.
>
>> I'll try and get a real mailing list setup though ASAP if it'd be helpful..
>
> I was thinking of just using dfey-general-discuss or whatever for it, as
> the "core" members who it will be relevant to will be on it and people
> just interested on happenings in their area won't.  But a mailing list
> specifcally for DogFish would work well too I suppose.

There a few ideas with regards to this, but yes, I agree that it is
relevant to the users so is probably a good idea.